The conception of understanding magnetic micro- and nanoparticles and its application for drug delivery system was nourished in the late 1970s by Widder, Senyi and Colleagues [94, 95].
The concept of phronesis can itself be seen as providing a certain elaboration of the dialogic conception of understanding Gadamer had already found in Plato.
To begin with, one needs to get clear what Kvanvig has in mind when he talks of understanding, since many commentators have found the conception of understanding that he targets problematic.
Both schools exemplify in different ways a conception of understanding the world that is inseparable from the interest in coming into "attunement" with it, to use a felicitous word from Charles Taylor (1982).
We believe that a chronic relapsing disorder model is not a useful conception for understanding the experience of the majority of people who have difficulties with alcohol dependence at some point in their life and that the influence of age and age-associated problems linked to dependence would benefit from further elaboration.
Project Zero's research proposes a performance-based conception of "understanding," i.e. understanding is the capability to perform flexibly with knowledge in novel situations.
Gadamer's conception of understanding as not reducible to method or technique, along with his insistence of understanding as an ongoing process that has no final completion, not only invites comparison with ideas to be found in the work of the later Wittgenstein, but can also be seen as paralleling developments in post-Kuhnian philosophy of science.
However, students realize the practical benefits of understanding scientific conceptions, and sufficient weight exists to maintain this understanding within long-term memory.
Hatano and Inagaki (1997, p. 120) also note that "as children learn these and other scientific conceptions in school biology, their ways of understanding the biological world may in fact change.
