"conceptual footing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to talk about the core ideas and principles of a particular activity, topic, or field. For example, "college students must have a strong conceptual footing in order to understand higher level math concepts."
The recent conceptual and technical footing of cancer immunology has paved ways to discover innovative cancer immunotherapies to treat and retard progression of the disease.
The committee has already presented a conceptual design for the 30,000-square-foot museum, which is slated to house permanent and traveling art exhibits as well as a research facility.
"Jim Joe is one of those artists who have one foot in the graffiti world and one foot in something weirder and more conceptual," says Kathy Grayson, the Hole's founder.
Conceptual designs envision a spacecraft about 100 feet long with the nuclear reactor at one end and the scientific instruments at the other.
It is also a departure from the center's traditional emphasis -- photojournalism and documentary photography -- giving free rein to conceptual-art projects and granting video equal footing with still photography.
Was it one-foot-five above the base of the picture, or one-foot-six?' If you're thinking about conceptual things, the measurements don't matter … It's rather unfortunate that we can't just see these things.
In this tradition the conceptual, the experiential and the artisanal meet on equal footing.
Even the conceptual work -- and it was strong -- had its feet on the ground.
The installation "History Class" by the Thai conceptual artist Sutee Kunavichayanont was first set up in 2000 at the foot of Bangkok's Democracy Monument to invite people to produce their own history textbooks and reclaim their pasts.
The Gutai group of postwar Japanese conceptual artists not only made radical abstract paintings with their hands and feet; they also sought to network with similar-minded artists in other parts of the world.
