The phrase "conceive itself" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to imagine or form a thought or idea about oneself. Example: The young girl couldn't conceive herself as an astronaut until she saw a female astronaut speak at her school.
It may make profit or power its first object, or it may conceive itself as fulfilling a higher and more exacting function.
Engineering ethics tends to conceive itself as a form of professional ethics.
This is particularly the case in Europe, which has for long been reluctant to conceive itself as immigration society (Mollenkopf & Hochschild, 2010).
While Facebook's VR division recently shut down its in-house Story Studio, Oculus has traded the heavy-handed control for a lighter touch, funding unique products it couldn't conceive itself.
Despite its history of impoverishment, it conceives itself as an important regional player.
Thus, the I is both cause of itself and conceives itself alone in itself.
By contrast, Labour typically conceives itself as "the one Realistic alternative" to the Tories.
The Federalist Society initially conceived itself as a political alternative within law schools to the activist National Lawyers Guild, a bête noir of conservatives since its establishment in the 1930s.
On the one hand, the results help to clarify more precisely how ethics conceives itself in its relation to empirical data per se [ 11].
The Israeli leadership could not conceive of itself as anything less than benign, and even persuaded itself that a subjugated Arab population would come to appreciate its overlords.
This was a real departure for a church that, while inevitably evolving in fact, tended to conceive of itself as unchanging and beyond the forces of history.
