"differing conceptions" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to different ways of perceiving or understanding something. Example: The students in the philosophy class had differing conceptions of what constitutes a good life. Some believed it involved wealth and success, while others emphasized simplicity and inner peace.
On the rare occasions that the individual suffers a "perplexity of conscience", the difficulties can be traced either to differing conceptions of the man's telos, or differing ideas of the best means of actualising the individual's socially endorsed telos (PE 314).
It may not be possible to remove the elements of subjectivity, of values, of differing conceptions of the good, which make education different from medicine (itself not value-free, of course).
What attempts to bridge these two differing conceptions?
These and many other religious traditions offered differing conceptions of bondage and diverging paths to moksha.
Underlying this debate are differing conceptions of U.S. interests at stake in Syria's civil war.
Boczkowski shows how these decisions were shaped by both the politics of newsrooms and differing conceptions of the audience.
Due to differing privacy conceptions, then, the central question about the future of privacy is different.
Migration constitutes a particularly difficult life circumstance for women if it involves differing role conceptions in the country of origin and the emigrant country.
They studied 110 college students enrolled in non-majors' introductory biology and identified three major ways that student conceptions differed from scientific conceptions.
The content and implementation of these policies differs greatly between the two countries, reflecting their different conceptions of multifunctionality.
In these paintings Christ is represented with his head leaning on one side with an expression of pain and his body bending forward in agony a conception differing from "the triumphant Christ" of the preceding age.
