'negative conceptions' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a set of ideas or beliefs that are pessimistic, negative, or gloomy. For example, "The teacher had many negative conceptions about the students' ability to succeed."
"They can't relaunch the operations from a clean slate because people have negative conceptions of what T-Mobile's quality is," Mr. Kuittinen said.
The republican conception of liberty is certainly distinct from both Greenian positive and negative conceptions.
Advocates of negative conceptions of freedom typically restrict the range of obstacles that count as constraints on freedom to those that are brought about by other agents.
Taylor 1982; Steiner 1994; Carter and Kramer 2008) to distinguish it from those 'impure' negative conceptions that make at least minimal references to the agent's beliefs, desires or values.
Much of the most recent literature on political and social freedom has concentrated on the above debate over the differences between the republican and liberal (i.e. negative) conceptions of freedom.
I asked Network Rail if they have ever put any pressure on clubs to close, perhaps in order to clean up the area around the arches because of some of the "negative conceptions" attached to nightclubs.
Initial case law litigated under Article 14 confirms this negative conception.
This claim was premised on an essentially negative conception of liberty.
The alternative proposed by De Soto, beginning with a negative conception of State intervention, aims at deregulation of the informal sector.
Notice that the republican view of freedom is, at least in the broad sense, a negative conception of political liberty.
Liberals like Berlin have thus understandably rejected the positive, and emphatically embraced the negative conception of liberty.
