The phrase "absolute conception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing philosophical, theoretical, or abstract ideas where a complete or total understanding is implied.
Example: "In his theory, he argues that absolute conception is necessary for grasping the fundamental nature of reality."
Alternatives: "complete understanding" or "total comprehension".
These are concepts that are not a part of what Williams calls the "absolute conception of the world" and do not express truths that any rational creature, regardless of her culture, would in principle acknowledge.
But he also infuriated philosophers by applauding the Enlightenment aspiration to scientific objectivity and "the absolute conception of reality".
In his book Descartes: The Project of Pure Inquiry (1978), Williams gave a compelling description of the ideal of objectivity in science, which he called the "absolute conception" of reality.
In an influential study of Descartes (1978), he introduced the notion of an "absolute conception of the world", to mark the ambition of science to provide a picture of reality that is undistorted by any particular perspective.
Objective truth in ethics would have to consist not in ethical entities or properties added to the absolute conception of the external world but in the objective validity of the reasoning that supports certain practical, rather than descriptive, judgments about what people should do and how they should live.
For the manner in which the initial security council resolution was contorted out of all recognition from the protection of civilians to, in effect, outright regime change has left a sour taste in the mouths of powers like China, Russia and India who still hold an absolute conception of state sovereignty".
Since the time of Newton and Leibniz, philosophers' struggles to comprehend these concepts have often appeared to take the form of a dispute between absolute conceptions of space, time and motion, and relational conceptions.
Together, we could escape the expectations of others and absolute conceptions of virtuous behavior.
We argue that Mauss's post-war concerns had crystallized around the omnipresent threat of loss-of-humanity and his war-survivor's scepticism toward absolute conceptions of individual and collective sovereignty.
The aim of objectivity in science is by this method to approach as closely as possible to the absolute conception a conception of what is there "anyway," independent of the human point of view.
In humans there appear to be various lower threshold criteria (not absolute) for conception and higher numbers of cells inseminated (in vivo) led to increases in success (Publicover and Barratt, 2011).
