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We and conceive
We can conceive of no alternatives.
We cannot conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.
We cannot possibly conceive an ' is ' except as belonging to some thing that is, or exists.
We neither conceive them, nor think them, nor cognize them in any way, as a thing apart, but solely as forming, in combination with numerous other attributes, the idea of an individual object ".
We first notice this in the beginning, when she cannot conceive that Moon Orchid may have aged in the past 30 years.
We must seek to give them civilization in the highest sense that we can conceive of it .”
" We accept it ," wrote Weismann, " not because we are able to demonstrate the process in detail ... but simply because we must, because it is the only possible explanation that we can conceive.
We conceive of the individual animal as a small world, existing for its own sake, by its own means.
: We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ;
We can't conceive of an inch – long line being divided into a thousand parts, much less infinities of infinities.
We avoid thereby the dubious mythological and psychological connotations of the term: archetype — since the term ‘ type-image ’ admits the possibility of a historical succession of types without implying the existence of a unique prototype supposed to be the underlying substratum of all literary forms referring to a primordial ‘ myth .’ The proposed new term retains the idea of uniformity and recurrence inherent in the idea of ‘ archetype ’ but makes us conceive literature as a culturally conditioned phenomenon valued not because of mythical uniformity but because of appreciation of historically varying originality ” ( Rieser 1962: 109 ).

We and abstract
We have heard that after seeing Mr. Quasimodo's work it will be virtually impossible to deny the artistic validity and importance of the whole abstract movement.
( We abstract here from technological progress and assume that prices of all other products change proportionately.
We begin with the abstract characterization of C *- algebras given in the 1943 paper by Gelfand and Naimark.
We can solve both problems using a more abstract definition of the exponential map that works for all Lie groups, as follows.
On February 28, 1971, at the dedication, Dominique De Menil said, " We are cluttered with images and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine ," noting Rothko ’ s courage in painting what might be called " impenetrable fortresses " of color.
In an address to the election he had said: " We cannot subscribe to a programme of armed resistance in the field, or even of permanent withdrawal from Westminster ; but to the spirit of Sinn Féin, as distinct from its abstract programme, the great mass of independent single-minded Irishmen have been won over, and accordingly they ought now to have a full and sympathetic trial for enforcing the Irish nation's right of self-determination.
We can further interpret this equality by considering the abstract change of variables formula to transport the integral on the right hand side to an integral over Ω:
You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, " We want to cut this ," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than " Nigger, nigger.
We shall present a precise, formal definition of an abstract polytope below.
We can't have an idea of some abstract thing that is common to many particular ideas and therefore has, at the same time, many different predicates and no predicates.
We cannot separate or abstract objects and their qualities from our perception of them.
You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, " We want to cut this ," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than " Nigger, nigger.

We and idea
::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.
At the Labour Party conference at Southport in 1934, Attlee declared that " We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
:"< sup >†</ sup > We shall use the expression ' computable function ' to mean a function calculable by a machine, and let ' effectively calculable ' refer to the intuitive idea without particular identification with any one of these definitions.
We learn names by connecting an idea with a sound, so that speaker and hearer have the same idea when the same word is used.
The idea of using computers to search for relevant pieces of information was popularized in the article As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in 1945.
All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning ; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation ... We say that God Himself is a self-existing being ... Man does exist upon the same principles ... Bible does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man.
We even liked the idea of ' fun death '!
We certainly do not have any experience of minds creating physical objects out of nothing ; from a first-person perspective, we surely have no experience or idea of what that would even be like.
Crystal remembers saying, "' We need something for Sally to talk about ,' and Nora said, ' Well, faking orgasm is a great one ,' and right away we said, ' Well, the subject is good ,' and then Meg came on board and we talked with her about the nature of the idea and she said, ' Well, why don't I just fake one, just do one?
We need only glance at the account-books of the Apostolic Chamber, still kept in the Vatican archives, to get an idea of the trade of which Avignon became the centre.
The most telling criticism, however, came perhaps from within the Group's own ranks, when on the eve of war Keynes gave a " nostalgic and disillusioned account of the pure sweet air of G. E. Moore, that belief in undisturbed individualism, that Utopianism based on a belief in human reasonableness and decency, that refusal to accept the idea of civilisation as ' a thin and precarious crust ' ... Keynes's fond, elegiac repudiation of his " early beliefs ", in the light of current affairs (" We completely misunderstood human nature, including our own ")".
We were Theodore Supergrass and the idea was the band would be a little black character, and we wouldn't ever have to do interviews.
We can verify that our idea of " macroscopic " systems fall within the correspondence limit.
Armed with this idea and inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous article As We May Think, Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information in the 1960s developed a comprehensive index of how scientific thinking propagates.
We now introduce the idea of the Aspiration level as introduced by Herbert Simon and developed in economics by Richard Cyert and James march in their 1963 book " A Behavioral theory of the firm ".
This idea, and a detailed examination of the underlying processes, was first extensively explored by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their work Metaphors We Live By.
Voltaire said " We look to Scotland for our idea of civilisation ".
We had the idea to re-record two tunes, just because they'd never been done officially in the studio.
' We were able to break a new idea, we had to turn it over in three days.
We even have a fairly good idea of what Gudea looked like, since he placed in temples throughout his city numerous statues or idols depicting himself with lifelike realism, ( Statues of Gudea ).
" We have no idea who actually dubbed it.
Reportedly, when budget estimates reached $ 14 million, the producers attempted to replace Hill with Arthur Hiller ; but abandoned the idea after hundreds of native Polynesians in the cast went on strike, declaring: " We can and will perform only for our friend, Monsieur Hill.

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