"conceptual opposition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an idea that clashes with another idea, either because they contradict each other, or because they have different objectives or goals. For example, you could say: "The debate between scientific theory and religious doctrine is an example of conceptual opposition."
This mask type stands in certain conceptual opposition to the maiden genre.
Studies of highland-lowland relationships across different periods, places and disciplines also place the two realms in conceptual opposition and only rarely engage in depth with the interaction that must underwrite all negotiations of identity.
Benjamin's concern with delineating an immediate and metaphysical experience of spirit is valuable in providing a thematic description of a conceptual opposition working throughout his thought.
Confucian texts uphold the ideal of a different kind of attunement, under which the world and its order can be called good without the ambiguity that Daoist skepticism with conceptual opposition creates.
The framework takes into account two sets of conceptual oppositions: habituation and calculation, constraint and volition.
Neither vision of feminism challenges the fundamental conceptual oppositions that serve to rationalize and legitimate women's subordination.
Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning.
My work uses comparative and historical methods to challenge a set of key conceptual oppositions in classical sociological theory: authoritarianism and democracy, revolution and counter-revolution, and state and society.
However, as has been noted many times, the notion of "nonaction" or wuwei does not denote literal inaction but presupposes something like the possibility of an unforced acting with the grain of things, and that presupposes that it is possible to become attuned to that grain while in a state of awareness that is not cluttered by distorting conceptual oppositions.
Thus, there should be no conceptual tension or opposition between the common good and the good of the individual member of the community, for the common good embraces the goods the basic goods—of all the members of the community.
Derrida is most celebrated as the principal exponent of deconstruction, a term he coined for the critical examination of the fundamental conceptual distinctions, or "oppositions," inherent in Western philosophy since the time of the ancient Greeks.
