Lovitt: VORSTELLUNG - CONCEPTION

"Conception" here translates the noun Vorstellung. Elsewhere in this volume, Vorstellung will usually be translated by "representation," and its related verb vorstellen by "to represent." Both "conception" and "representation" should suggest a placing or setting-up-before. Cf. the discussion of Vorstellung in The Age of the World Picture (QCT   p. 131-132).