"conceptual boundaries" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually refers to the distinctions or limitations placed on a concept or idea. For example: The use of artificial intelligence is slowly blurring the conceptual boundaries of automation and human capability.
Most are unhealthy, and some push the conceptual boundaries of food into new territory.
Described as a visionary and iconoclast who consistently ignores disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, Dr. Roughgarden always draws a good crowd.
Crime-fighting is still the N.Y.P.D.'s primary mission, but counterterrorism has really expanded the operational and conceptual boundaries of traditional police work.
A key limitation is the fact that talent management lacks a consistent definition and clear conceptual boundaries.
We also discuss the complex role played by social networks in transcending the geographical and conceptual boundaries between distinct downtown drug-using neighborhoods.
Like the controversial work of the artists dubbed "YBAs" in the late nineties, McQueen's designs pushed aesthetic and conceptual boundaries to such a degree they were reset in the public consciousness.
[Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, I, §99 (1953: 45e)] "It is unnatural to draw a conceptual boundary line where there is not some special justification for it, where similarities would constantly draw us across the arbitrarily drawn line".
Kane [ 1] stated that the passing score is a point on the observed-score scale whereas the standard is a conceptual boundary on the true-score scale between acceptable and non-acceptable performance.
By "community" is meant certain characteristics referred to in community-based natural resource management including, having reasonably defined decision-making processes; being a homogenous unit (sometimes ethnic) with shared goals and values; having traditional resource use systems and livelihood strategies; and also having a clear spatial or conceptual boundary (Armitage 2005; Li 2002).
Arguably, this conceptual tension between boundaries understood as lower-dimensional entities and boundaries understood as thin layers reflects an irreducible ambiguity in ordinary speech (Stroll 1979, 1988).
Though I can easily distinguish conceptual and categorical boundaries, honoring them, reifying them, has never been my strong suit.
