Imagine looking at the world with 20-20 vision but without the conceptual tools for assembling that information into a functional model.

Similar conceptual tools are in constant use in the physical sciences.

"To provide teachers with conceptual tools to teach nanoscale science and emerging molecular technology."

When modeling activity or behavior, it is a conceptual tool used to limit extraneous variables such as terrain.

As we shall see, though, it is precisely such a set of conceptual tools that more recent structuralism has attempted to supply.

Morse had neither the documents from the Chinese archives nor the conceptual tools of later scholars.

The approach uses three sets of conceptual tools.

The course covers analytical and conceptual tools that are aids to the development of judgment.

System dynamics is both a conceptual tool and a powerful modeling method.

The modeller is free to use encapsulation as a conceptual tool, and it does not necessarily have any physical interpretation.