Sentences with phrase «conceived as an argument»

At the same time, the professional development initiative was conceived as an argument for the sort of professional learning that the standards would require.

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His argument, part of which appeared in these pages («Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil,» May 2000), is that moral education as presently conceived almost inevitably ends up by thinning out moral content, removing the sharp edges of judgment, avoiding normative traditions of moral experience, and thus stifling the factors most crucial to the formation of character.

For that argument may perhaps amount to this, that perfection is conceivable only as the property of an existing individual, and not of merely possible individuals (whereas we may conceive the nature of Mr. Micawber, for example, as not in fact the nature of an existing man).

They might conceive of their arguments or differences as scrimmages for the larger game of life.

Conceived as we now conceive them, as so many fortunate escapes from almost limitless processes of destruction, the benevolent adaptations which we find in Nature suggest a deity very different from the one who figured in the earlier versions of the argument.

It seems that there are further basic arguments which Hartshorne could level against Craighead's claim, charging, for example, that it is a fallacy of composition to assert that because we can conceive of the nonexistence of some things we can conceive of the nonexistence of all things.4 Craighead has in fact anticipated that fallacy charge as it applies in this issue (ECCC 122f).

The first possibility is that the proofs for the existence of God are «empty tautologies,» like the ontological argument which Marx stated in the form: «What I conceive for myself as actual is an actual conception for me.

For Leclerc, however, the loss of immediacy (which is always present in the case of a normal serial society) forms the main argument for conceiving God as a society, because Leclerc considers «perishing» to be metaphysically required for every prehensibility, including God's (Review of William Christian, An Interpretation of Whitehead's Meta physics, Journal of Philosophy 57 [1960], 138 - 143; henceforth cited as RWC).

The show was conceived from the beginning as an argument against Flaubert, Tolstoi, Dostoyevski, etc..

Patrick Jones: It's another argument, but I don't see how, as an abstract painting, you can conceive light in a painting unless you use your memory of what light looks like in experience.