From the Dictionary of Philosophy (Peter A. Angeles)
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 42.
3. Find the first full sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
action, and specifically toward self-preservation. Sometimes used with reference to deliberate VOLUNTARY ACTION directed toward something desired. See WILL.
Conceive (L., concipere, "to conceive," "to take," "to seize"). 1. To grasp by the mind. 2. To form a conception of. To imagine. 3. To comprehend. To understand. 4. To suppose. 5. To plan out.
Sometimes contrasted with "imagine," which is included in the class of "conceive." "Imagine" suggests a pictorial understandinging, whereas "conceive" also includes nonpictorial understanding of abstractions (for example, of infinity). See IMAGE, MENTAL; IMAGINATION.
Concept (L., concipere, "to conceive"), 1. A mental impression, a thought, a notion, an idea with any degree of concreteness or abstraction, used in abstract
2. Open the book to page 42.
3. Find the first full sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
action, and specifically toward self-preservation. Sometimes used with reference to deliberate VOLUNTARY ACTION directed toward something desired. See WILL.
Conceive (L., concipere, "to conceive," "to take," "to seize"). 1. To grasp by the mind. 2. To form a conception of. To imagine. 3. To comprehend. To understand. 4. To suppose. 5. To plan out.
Sometimes contrasted with "imagine," which is included in the class of "conceive." "Imagine" suggests a pictorial understandinging, whereas "conceive" also includes nonpictorial understanding of abstractions (for example, of infinity). See IMAGE, MENTAL; IMAGINATION.
Concept (L., concipere, "to conceive"), 1. A mental impression, a thought, a notion, an idea with any degree of concreteness or abstraction, used in abstract