conceptual apparatus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconceptualandapparatus
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conceptual
adjective
uk/kənˈsep.tʃu.əl/us/kənˈsep.tʃu.əl/
based on ideas ...
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apparatus
noun
uk/ˌæp.əˈreɪ.təs/us/ˌæp.əˈræt̬.əs/
a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a ...
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(Definition ofconceptualandapparatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Given that the belief-holders are ordinary people, they cannot plausibly be assumed to employ anything other than theconceptualapparatusof folk psychology and ontology.
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But then 3 must provide a description of the content of the relevant belief which draws on nothing other than thisconceptualapparatus.
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The essential idea here is that, since any given approach involves a relatively setconceptualapparatus, any approach can explain only so many phenomena.
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The higher the resolving power of theconceptualapparatus, the greater the number of observable differences.
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Theconceptualapparatusin place provides no doubt the materials in terms of which innovation will be elaborated.
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He also wrote at a time when theconceptualapparatusof neoclassical theory was in the infancy of its development.
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Negligence law treats this issue by means of theconceptualapparatusof a duty of care.
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The whole organizational, practical andconceptualapparatusof 'bread-and-butter' archaeology grinds any serious consideration of agency into dust.
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Bourbaki's purported aim in introducing such concepts is expanding theconceptualapparatusupon which the unified development of mathematical theories would rest later on.
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Dividing the model into a matrix of zones provided a physical andconceptualapparatuswith which to understand one of the building's guiding principles that of simultaneity.
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The whole organizational, practical andconceptualapparatusof 'bread-and-butter' archaeology bears down upon the construction of agency and grinds it into dust under its weight.
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I am willing to allow that an agent who uses theconceptualapparatusof folk psychology may believe that a particular action of hers was overdetermined.
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In short, political philosophy is the activity, as with all philosophy, whereby theconceptualapparatus behind such concepts as aforementioned are analyzed, in their history, intent, evolution and the like.
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But each of these strategies requires the agent to have beliefs drawing from resources of more refined conceptual apparatuses.
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