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Sloan school unlike Yale, Harvard or Wharton built itself for a long time on certain structural, conceptional, underpinnings.

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2015

The task which I put before them in a number of variations was this: I used lists of words of which half, or one more or less than half, belonged to one single conceptional group.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Münsterberg, Hugo

Australian usage suggested the coöperative theory, and Australia and Melanesia the conceptional theory.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

If, as he conceives, conceptional totemism was transformed in the central tribes into patrilineal totemism, I fail to see why the phratries or classes should descend in the female line.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

But we must also remember that the Upani@sads do not represent so much a conceptional system of philosophy as visions of the seers who are possessed by the spirit of this Brahman.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath