The phrase "a tendency to conceive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's inclination or predisposition to form ideas or concepts.
Example: "She has a tendency to conceive innovative solutions to complex problems."
Alternatives: "an inclination to form" or "a propensity to create".
The first great event was his encounter with Jean Vitrier, who became a spiritual guide at a time when Erasmus was spiritually troubled, and whose influence reinforced a tendency to conceive religion as a personal and inward experience.
A tendency to conceive ambitious projects, only to quickly abandon them, became a feature of Bizet's Rome years; in addition to Carmen Saeculare he considered and discarded at least five opera projects, two attempts at a symphony, and a symphonic ode on the theme of Ulysses and Circe.
Some Delta groups grew rich, a development that may have encouraged an already existing tendency to conceive of gods and spirits as species of beneficent foreigners.
(One of the ironies of being a writer — or working in any kind of creative area, I suppose — is the tendency to conceive of yourself in oddly dehumanizing ways: as "productive" or "unproductive," as laboring toward some kind of Stakhanovite ideal of efficiency and yield).
Drewermann's first conflict with the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy occurred in 1983, when he criticized what he perceived as its anthropocentrism regarding the natural environment its tendency to conceive the value of the environment in terms of human interests.
Benjamin's claim is that a genuine understanding of the allegorical as it emerged in its highest form in the 17th century has been obscured by, on the one hand, the later Romantic aestheticizing of the symbol and, on the other, by the tendency to conceive the allegorical negatively in its contrast with this devalued, aesthetic concept.
Strikingly, Heidegger goes so far as to assert that our tendency to treat art as aesthetics is just as significant for and revealing of our current historical self-understanding as are the increasing dominance of science and technology, the tendency to conceive of all meaningful human activity in terms of culture, and the growing absence of any god or gods in our Western world (QCT 116 7/GA5 75–6).
At the heart of those laws is the Hobbesian notion of conatus, which Leibniz describes as "the beginning and end of motion," and which he seems to conceive of as a tendency to motion in a particular direction.
