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IDEAS |
Conceptions |
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IMAGINE |
To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise. |
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IMAGINER |
One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. |
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NOTIONAL |
Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
abstract conceptions. |
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OVAL |
Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as,
oval conceptions. |
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AGGRANDIZE |
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to
aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. |
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SUBLIME |
A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style
that expresses lofty conceptions. |
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INADEQUATE |
Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient;
deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions,
representations, etc. |
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A PRIORI |
Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience
rational or possible. |
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CONCEPTUALISM |
A theory, intermediate between realism and
nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general
conceptions of individual or single objects. |
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NOMINALIST |
One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who
adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or
universals, exist in name only. |
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SYNTHESIS |
The combination of separate elements of thought into a
whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera,
individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis. |
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UNDERSTANDING |
Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of
knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In
this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. |
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GENUS |
...te species;
a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly
divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sor... |
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REALISM |
...a and
species are real things or entities, existing independently of our
conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem
(Pla... |
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SELF-CONTRADICTION |
The act of contradicting one's self or itself;
repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two
members, one of which con... |
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BENTHAMISM |
...he sufficient
explanation of ethical and jural conceptions. ... |
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METAPHYSICS |
... determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and
relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being;
phylos... |