Imperative Conceptions

Imperative Surgery

This is not all blame, far from it, for Dr. Lilienthal's heavy handsome volume is welcome ii not necessary, and will I?e an addition to the surgeon's library. From the Preface we gather that the book has been written for the " practitioner of medicine who rarely takes up the scalpel, the specialist whose path seldom leads him to the operating room, and the recent graduate who, though versed in ...

Conceptions of professional competence

150-250 words Professional and practice-based learning is a process which manifests itself in many different forms. It differs by personal characteristics of the learners, levels of their professions, fields of practice, intentionality of their learning, and formalisation of the learning activities. Notions of competence have entered this diverse practice in many ways. The question is whether c...

Conceptions of the Continuum

A number of conceptions of the continuum are examined from the perspective of conceptual structuralism, a view of the nature of mathematics according to which mathematics emerges from humanly constructed, intersubjectively established, basic structural conceptions. This puts into question the idea from current set theory that the continuum is somehow a uniquely determined concept.

Wittgenstein : Concepts or Conceptions ?

I WANT TO MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONCEPTS (BEGRIFFE) AND CONCEPTIONS (Auflassungen), and a related distinction between descriptions (Beschreibungen) and pictures (Bilder). I will then try to put this material to work in clarifying an important dimension in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Invest&ations: the difference between conceptual analyses and overviews ( Ubersichten or Uberblicken) [comp...

Conceptions of Knowledge