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On Concepts and Conceptions [PDF]

open access: possiblePhilosophical Issues, 1998
There are a number of important themes in professor Higginbotham's paper. I will focus here on what I take to be the main topic of the paper: whether there is a distinction to be drawn between what he calls "possessing a concept" and "having an adequate conception of a concept" and what this alleged distinction amounts to.
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Defending the concept of “concepts”

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010
AbstractWe critically review key lines of evidence and theoretical argument relevant to Machery's “heterogeneity hypothesis.” These include interactions between different kinds of concept representations, unified approaches to explaining contextual effects on concept retrieval, and a critique of empirical dissociations as evidence for concept ...
Brett K. Hayes, Lauren Kearney
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The Concept concept

Proceedings of ICCI'93: 5th International Conference on Computing and Information, 2002
This paper describes the application of formal concept analysis to the representation of relationships among word senses. The word "concept" is used as an exemplary case for three different formal contexts and their concept lattices. Formal contexts comprise both objects and attributes, explicitly indicating which objects share which attributes and ...
S.Y. Sedelow, W.A. Sedelow
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Concepts of Caring and Caring as a Concept

Advances in Nursing Science, 1990
If caring is to be retained as the "essence" of nursing, and if research in this area is to advance, then the various perspectives of caring must be clarified, the strengths and the limitations of these conceptualizations examined, and the applicability of caring as a concept and theory to the practice of nursing identified.
Joan L. Bottorff   +4 more
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Lifelong learning: concepts and conceptions

International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2000
This article reviews a number of versions of the concept of Lifelong Learning and sets out the main lines of the conceptions of education articulated in them. It then goes on to suggest an alternative to attempts to produce essentialist definitions and proffers a pragmatic, problem solving approach.
Aspin, David N., Chapman, Judith D.
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On the Concept of the Concept of Law

2021
Jurisprudents often conceive their task as requiring investigating “the concept of law.” What is, however, the concept of “(the) concept of law”? What do legal philosophers do when they investigate the concept of law? What do legal philosophers mean when they set for the concept of law? Is conceptual analysis—apparently, the primary tool for any search
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The Concept, and Conceptions, of Justice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1985
ABSTRACT Occasioned by but not pretending to constitute a critique of Julian Le Grand's ‘Equity as an Economic Objective‘, published in the first issue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy, this paper argues that the concept of justice must be distinguished from conceptions thereof.
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Conception and the Concept of Harm

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1983
In recent years, science and the courts have created new options whereby prospective parents can avoid the birth of a diseased or defective child. We can ascertain the likelihood that certain genetic diseases will be transmitted; we can detect a number of fetal abnormalities in utero; we have legal permission to abort for any reason, including fetal ...
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CONCEPT

2020
Distinguishes between discussing the scientificity, the discursivity, the historicity, and the politicality of concepts. Focusing on the last of these, offers a way of moving to and past the limit of any epistemological discussion of concept production, and toward a way of understanding concepts not as instruments serving to isolate or separate from ...
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A dialogical conception of concepts

Theory & Psychology, 2014
Classical psychology and philosophy have conceived of thinking as being intimately related to concepts. According to predominant psychological theories, concepts are the building blocks of propositional thought. Although important authors such as William James and Lev Vygotsky offered alternative accounts of concepts, they have been largely ignored ...
Larraín, A., Haye M., Andrés
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