The phrase "from a conception of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe where a particular idea or understanding originated from. Example: The author's interpretation of the character's actions stemmed from a conception of human psychology that was prevalent during the time period in which the novel was written.
Aside from a conception of what town planning is that would embarrass a GCSE geography student, you can see here some proper red-blooded libertarian thinking.
Adonis's indifference to prizes appears to stem partly from modesty and partly, to judge from a noontime talk he gave on Tuesday, from a conception of poetry that transcends not just literary politics but politics altogether.
The argument stems from a conception of the way interpretation works.
It also discusses blueprints of democratic institutions for dealing with issues that arise from a conception of citizenship.
He moved from a conception of philosophy conceived of as theoretical science, to a philosophy conceived of as the practice of free judgment.
The long, slow movement of British history from a conception of the realm understood as royal property to the state conceived as the expression of public will had in Burke's time reached a stage at which this will was expressed through the decisions of Parliament in a manner heavily influenced by the monarch.
Callicles goes on to articulate (with some help from Socrates) a conception of 'superiority' in terms of a pair of very traditional sounding virtues: intelligence [phronêsis], particularly about the affairs of the city, and courage [andreia], which makes men "competent to accomplish whatever they have in mind, without slackening off because of softness of spirit" (491a-b).
From physical destinations, we extrapolate a conception of goals.
(As one etiquette writer of the eighteen-eighties observed, "Not even a saint could, from 'inner consciousness' alone, evolve a conception of the thousand and one social observances of modern fashionable life").
Berlin himself insisted that political and ethical theories arise from a thinker's basic conception of human nature, which in turn is founded on an entire philosophical outlook, a conception of the nature of the universe, reality, knowledge etc.
Turning away from "trash" seems to have entailed turning away, not from comedy itself, but from a certain conception of what constitutes a "story".
