Conceives in a sentence

In a typical passage in the Intellectual Powers he asserts that when he has a conception of a centaur, the thing he conceives is an animal, and no idea is an animal; therefore, the thing he conceives is not an idea, but a centaur.

There is nothing in J Street’s new “bold” vision that conceives of Israel ceding land it has taken in order to “Judaize” increasing portions of Palestine.

Even for his club, he conceives goals like mad.

It begins during the postwar occupation of Japan, where a US soldier conceives a child with a Japanese woman disfigured by the atom bomb blast.

The cognitive-behavioral perspective conceives hypnosis as a set of methods that promote behavioral change through suggestion.

Today Hoyos still conceives and designs his pillows, which sell for $29.99 to $39.99 each on his website.

He does not differentiate between abstract and concrete labor, and omits the dialectic between capitalist property relations and estranged labor as precondition result of each other, as he conceives private property only as the result of estranged labor.

As the Baron's homosexuality is something of an open secret, Mohiam blackmails him into having sexual relations with her and conceives his child.

Cartoonists' lines are also used to illustrate the action of the senses (sight, smell, and hearing) in The Big Brag and even of thought, as in the moment when the Grinch conceives his awful idea.

François Ricard suggested that Kundera conceives with regard to an overall oeuvre, rather than limiting his ideas to the scope of just one novel at a time.

He conceives of gaming as a dichotomy between the intellect and chance.

If one conceives of religion and science according to these definitions then a conflict between them appears impossible.

In the views of some Kabbalists this conceives 'evil' as a 'quality of God', asserting that negativity enters into the essence of the Absolute.

It conceives Judaism as one and indivisible.

One view, termed "soft" primitivism in an illuminating book by Lovejoy and Boas, conceives of primitive life as a golden age of plenty, innocence, and happiness -- in other words, as civilized life purged of its vices.

Otherwise he conceives of atoms as does Democritus – in that they have position, number, and shape.

The Valentinian tradition conceives of materiality, rather than as being a separate substance from the divine, as attributable to an error of perception, which becomes symbolized mythopoetically as the act of material creation.