Conception
noun
The formation of an idea or plan in your mind.
You have a good conception of how the business works.
Often appears as...
- conception of reality
- conception of time
noun
The act of becoming pregnant.
Most miscarriages occur within the first three months after conception.
Often appears as...
- risk of conception
- moment of conception
noun
An artistic work or creation.
His conception of the project was outstanding.
Often appears as...
- artistic conception
- musical conception
noun
What you imagine something to be like.
She had no conception of how difficult the task would actually be.
Often appears as...
- personal conception
- conception of beauty
noun
The formation of an idea or plan in your mind.
You have a good conception of how the business works.
Often appears as...
- conception of reality
- conception of time
noun
The act of becoming pregnant.
Most miscarriages occur within the first three months after conception.
Often appears as...
- risk of conception
- moment of conception
noun
An artistic work or creation.
His conception of the project was outstanding.
Often appears as...
- artistic conception
- musical conception
noun
What you imagine something to be like.
She had no conception of how difficult the task would actually be.
Often appears as...
- personal conception
- conception of beauty
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Idea Formation
Refers to the process of coming up with a new idea or understanding something complex.
Her conception of the project made everything clear.
Pro Tip 2/2Understanding Specifics
Used when someone grasps the fine details and nuances of a subject or theory.
He has a solid conception of molecular biology.
Pro Tip 1/2Idea Formation
Refers to the process of coming up with a new idea or understanding something complex.
Her conception of the project made everything clear.
Pro Tip 2/2Understanding Specifics
Used when someone grasps the fine details and nuances of a subject or theory.
He has a solid conception of molecular biology.
Pro Tip 1/2Idea Formation
Refers to the process of coming up with a new idea or understanding something complex.
Her conception of the project made everything clear.
Pro Tip 2/2Understanding Specifics
Used when someone grasps the fine details and nuances of a subject or theory.
He has a solid conception of molecular biology.
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Why does the universe...
It's not an elegant universe. And then there's the best of all possible worlds in an ethical sense. You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly, in which there aren't things like childhood cancer or the Holocaust. This is an ethical conception.
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What is consciousness? -...
But like the model of the body, or our conception of white light, it doesn’t have to be. Our certainty that we have a metaphysical, subjective experience may come from one of the brain’s models, a cut-corner description of what it means to process information in a focused and deep manner.
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy. Here, I'm showing an artist's conception of a blazar. The dinner plate by which material falls onto the black hole
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Autism — what we know...
there's a spectrum of etiologies, a spectrum of causes. Based on epidemiological data, we know that one of the causes, or one of the associations, I should say, is advanced paternal age, that is, increasing age of the father at the time of conception. In addition, another vulnerable
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
This is a conclusion that we should have all kinds of reasons for avoiding, the most important of which is that when you say, "somebody who is doing bad things," you probably mean things like plotting a terrorist attack or engaging in violent criminality, a much narrower conception
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How do we reason for a...
broadly scientific conception of rationality but not because those principles and the methods they endorse are more accurate although I do think they're more accurate but because using those sorts of principles in public debate respects our autonomy more it's
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Understanding the rise...
The great disadvantage of it is that the Han have a very weak conception of cultural difference. They really believe in their own superiority, and they are disrespectful of those who are not. Hence their attitude, for example,
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Science can answer moral...
and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue. But the demagogues are right about one We need a universal conception of human values. Now, what stands in the way of this?
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Private Sperm Donor PIPE...
as a private sperm donor ed provides his clients conception options the natural method via sexual intercourse or a DIY service using test-tube and syringe so far I've helped about two-thirds of the
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
If you go all the way back to Hippocrates, physicians believed that orgasm in women was not just helpful for conception, but necessary. Doctors back then were routinely telling men
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Why does the universe...
It's not an elegant universe. And then there's the best of all possible worlds in an ethical sense. You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly, in which there aren't things like childhood cancer or the Holocaust. This is an ethical conception.
Video examples
What is consciousness? -...
But like the model of the body, or our conception of white light, it doesn’t have to be. Our certainty that we have a metaphysical, subjective experience may come from one of the brain’s models, a cut-corner description of what it means to process information in a focused and deep manner.
Video examples
Jedidah Isler: How I...
What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy. Here, I'm showing an artist's conception of a blazar. The dinner plate by which material falls onto the black hole
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Autism — what we know...
there's a spectrum of etiologies, a spectrum of causes. Based on epidemiological data, we know that one of the causes, or one of the associations, I should say, is advanced paternal age, that is, increasing age of the father at the time of conception. In addition, another vulnerable
Video examples
Glenn Greenwald: Why...
This is a conclusion that we should have all kinds of reasons for avoiding, the most important of which is that when you say, "somebody who is doing bad things," you probably mean things like plotting a terrorist attack or engaging in violent criminality, a much narrower conception
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
broadly scientific conception of rationality but not because those principles and the methods they endorse are more accurate although I do think they're more accurate but because using those sorts of principles in public debate respects our autonomy more it's
Video examples
Understanding the rise...
The great disadvantage of it is that the Han have a very weak conception of cultural difference. They really believe in their own superiority, and they are disrespectful of those who are not. Hence their attitude, for example,
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue. But the demagogues are right about one We need a universal conception of human values. Now, what stands in the way of this?
Video examples
Private Sperm Donor PIPE...
as a private sperm donor ed provides his clients conception options the natural method via sexual intercourse or a DIY service using test-tube and syringe so far I've helped about two-thirds of the
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
If you go all the way back to Hippocrates, physicians believed that orgasm in women was not just helpful for conception, but necessary. Doctors back then were routinely telling men
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Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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Gustave Courbet
French Artist
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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Nikola Tesla
Inventor
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
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Gary Johnson
American Politician
I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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Peter Bichsel
Swiss Writer
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
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Todd Akin
American Politician
As I said, I believe life starts at conception.
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Darryl Glenn
American Politician
I'm pro-life. I believe in life at conception.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.
Quote examples
Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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Gustave Courbet
French Artist
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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Nikola Tesla
Inventor
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
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Gary Johnson
American Politician
I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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Peter Bichsel
Swiss Writer
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
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Todd Akin
American Politician
As I said, I believe life starts at conception.
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Darryl Glenn
American Politician
I'm pro-life. I believe in life at conception.
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