The phrase "at a conception" is not commonly used in written English and may not be correct depending on the context.
It could be used in discussions related to the beginning of an idea or project, but clarity is essential to ensure the intended meaning is conveyed.
Example: "The team gathered at a conception of the new product to brainstorm innovative features."
Alternatives: "at the inception" or "during the formation".
And what about familiar entities of everyday life, like persons and material objects — can we arrive at a conception of their nature entirely in abstraction from our ways of thinking and perceiving such things?
In other words, democratic politics is not simply a channel through which we can assert our interests (as it is for the first argument), but a forum or mode of activity in which we can arrive at a conception of what our interests are.
he argues in a similar vein to Aristotle in Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, a "prime matter" that the Neoplatonists later defined as formless and incorporeal (because it was no actual body, but only the necessary underlying condition for bodies).
We arrive at a conception of human mentality that is far more nuanced and interesting than the black-and-white cartoon of atheism vs. religion.
ZNA, JST and MAR involved in drafting of initial experiments one-factor-at-a-time strategy followed by conception and design of RSM and later the manuscript.
Molina in his Concordia aimed at a unified conception of divine justice and mercy, foreknowledge and divine guidance, predestination and condemnation, and grace and human freedom.
Taking a computational approach to philosophy of science, Thagard employs his computer program ECHO to reconstruct and evaluate several historical cases of alleged conceptual revolution and arrives at a tamer conception of revolutionary breaks than Kuhn's.
But Kant was only expressing a conception widespread at the time.
He is especially concerned to attack a conception of eternity as existence at every time, a conception he attributes to Aristotle.
In Metaphysics 1.5, Aristotle remarks that Parmenides seems to have had a conception of formal unity (986b18 19), and he gives a compressed account of the reasoning by which he takes Parmenides to have arrived at such a conception (986b27 31).
This, as the authors point out, implied that the ACLU had arrived at an odd conception of rights.
