The phrase "able to conceive a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or ability to form an idea, plan, or concept.
Example: "She is able to conceive a new approach to solving the problem that others have overlooked."
Alternatives: "capable of forming a" or "able to generate a".
Her personal tragedy was that after several miscarriages she had given up on being able to conceive a child the natural way.
Some have asked whether Disney is able to conceive a black character that exists outside of slavery or stereotype, and why Tiana can't simply be a normal princess without historical baggage.
After spending most of my younger life, particularly my 20s, drunkenly barhopping and blissfully kissing my way through Manhattan, I thought I would easily be able to conceive a child when I was ready.
Inspired by the funny honeymoon-safari stories that her black lesbian friends (Eisa Davis and Crystal A. Dickinson) bring back from Africa, Annie (Kerry Butler) and her husband (Kelly AuCoin) — young white American urbanites who haven't been able to conceive a child — decide to adopt from an unnamed country there.
THE CALL Inspired by the funny honeymoon-safari stories that her black lesbian friends (Eisa Davis and Crystal A. Dickinson) bring back from Africa, Annie (Kerry Butler) and her husband (Kelly AuCoin) — young white American urbanites who haven't been able to conceive a child — decide to adopt from an unnamed country there.
Judith, at the age of forty-two, has to come to terms with the realization that she will never be able to conceive a child; Lyssa "has it all," only to find that others want to take it away, for no better reason than that they can.
This is due to a combination of factors, including some women getting pregnant when they have other illnesses (when they previously would not have been able to conceive), an increasing rate of obesity in pregnant women, and other mothers opting to have children at an older age.
For all one knows they have conceived of a situation or were able to conceive of a situation in which P appears to hold because they do not know the relevant facts which make P inconceivable, since those facts are only knowable a posteriori.
But would a 14th-century person in Poland be able to conceive of a person radically different than themselves?
Even if automation provides people with the opportunity to find purpose elsewhere, it's not clear whether we'll be ready or able to conceive of a life of meaning which is totally disconnected from work.
But our not being able to conceive of a possible world in which given CT, SK is true, constitutes strong evidence against the claim that SK is logically possible given CT (1996: 274 75).
