"conceptual elaboration" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of explaining and developing an idea or concept that someone has proposed. For example, "The professor asked us to provide a conceptual elaboration of the economic theories she presented."
Similarly, Dignāga's understanding of direct perception (nirvikalpa-pratyakṣa) as lacking any conceptual elaboration captures the sense of the perfected nature.
The Buddhist epistemologists, however, came to reject both memory (sṃrti) and conceptual elaboration (kalpanā) as reliable sources of knowledge.
For Dignāga and Dharmakīrti the apprehension of a resemblance (sādṛśya) between different objects, which marks the transition from an indistinct perceptual experience to a distinct cognitive awareness, is in itself a form of conceptual elaboration.
Reality is that which cannot be comprehended by the means of linguistic and conceptual elaboration, as it is utterly beyond the grasp of words and thoughts which merely defile the cognitive states.
Through the presentation of results at the level of the individual household, the case study demonstrates how the different data streams acted as analytical lenses which facilitated data corroboration and comparison, and provided the basis for a grounded conceptual elaboration of domestically situated food provisioning and handling practices and the role of food safety within these.
Notably, the conceptual processing evoked by the word stimuli in the lexical decision task was completely implicit, in the sense that no explicit conceptual elaboration of the stimuli was required in order to perform the task correctly.
To fully understand the roles of the frontal regions during mirrored self-face recognition, further conceptual elaborations are necessary.
Placed after the Explanation phase which should have addressed students' confusions, introduced new terms and ideas, and led to some conceptual resolution the Elaboration phase lets students try out their new knowledge.
Mach, in the introductory chapter of his book Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen (1886; Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations), reviving Humean antimetaphysics, contended that all factual knowledge consists of a conceptual organization and elaboration of what is given in the elements i.e., in the data of immediate experience.
The lack of conceptually coherent measures precludes elaboration of conceptual frameworks with which to understand our empirical observations.
On Oruka's view, not every member of society carries out these kind of elaborations and conceptual clarifications of the principles that underlie what the majority live at the pragmatic level only as custom.
