"conceptual ground" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the underlying ideas or foundations on which a concept or argument is based. It can also refer to the theoretical or abstract basis for something. Example: The author's arguments for ethical veganism were firmly grounded in the conceptual ground of animal rights and environmental sustainability.
And though no conceptual ground is broken that wasn't already trampled and scorched in the Harold and Kumar movies (to cite only the three most sophisticated examples), the whole mess is silly, spirited and, yes, smart enough to work.
Thus, Kuhn the rationalist seems to stand on shaky conceptual ground.
Ace and Edvac were binary machines and both broke new conceptual ground with the notion of a program stored in memory that drove the operation of the machine.
The work, which was released in March, was voted by Science and AAAS (the publisher of Science Careers) as the 2010 Breakthrough of the Year "in recognition of the conceptual ground their experiment breaks, the ingenuity behind it and its many potential applications," according to a AAAS press release.
A Design Science approach is taken to demonstrate that the REA ontology, which provides a shared conceptual ground for these three model types, and its axioms, which describe invariant conditions for value systems, can help to build conceptually sound simulation models and identify the integration points between these models.
This gives a conceptual ground explaining why the native hybrid P. esculentus should also be protected.
The concert reflected its shaky conceptual grounds.
But Mr. Woodring and Mr. Frisell -- a superb draftsman and a superb technician, for those who had come to gawk at sheer skill -- are on to a good idea and the show succeeded on conceptual grounds.
There are good things in this magazine – it's nice that Darren Taylor's Letter from the Editor begins with a quote from Samuel Beckett, and Andrew WK's problem page ("From my experience of being in a band, I don't think practice is all that important …") can't be argued with on conceptual grounds.
Bifactor models were preferred on conceptual grounds.
In seeking a conceptual grounding for the CPT theorem, see Greaves (2010).
