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These two words are troubling for many people because it seems that they can be used near-identically or near-interchangeably.
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Generally, concept is used when referring to an objective idea/entity (as in the concept of eleven dimensions is hard to grasp), while conception refers to a certain person's subjective idea of something (as in his conceptions about English seem a little misguided). The difference, then, on at least one level, is objectivity.
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' ]9 R8 s9 e/ |' S( M- ^/ DThe "concept" of justice is the general idea, but different political theorists have different "conceptions" of justice. The concept of "utility" is shared by all utilitarians, but eudaimonistic utilitarianism maintains that the best conception of utility is happiness, while hedonistic utilitarianism holds that the best conception is pleasure.% k7 F+ |/ S# V7 F M2 j
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