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How not to clarify concepts in nursing

Paley, John·1996·Journal of Advanced Nursing
DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.22618.x
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Concept analysis and conceptual clarification form an identifiable genre within the nursing literature, with most recent examples drawing on the model proposed by Walker & Avant (1988) This paper argues that the Walker & Avant model is based on untenable assumptions, and that the writings of those who adopt it inevitably contain a serious flaw that vitiates the procedure and renders the results arbitrary In particular, the relationship between concept and theory, a topic to which the philosophy of science has devoted much attention, has been misunderstood by these authors Concepts are not the ‘building blocks’ of theory, but the niches created by theory, and any ‘conceptual clarification’ that anticipates theoretical commitment becomes a vacuous exercise in semantics

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Authors
Paley, J.
Venue
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1996-09
Volume
24
Issue
3
Pages
572-576
ISSN
  • 0309-2402 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2648
DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.22618.x
OpenAlex
W2045487394
Cited by
177
References
3
FWCI
10.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
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