Two Kinds of Competency
Tom Haskins,
growing changing learning creating,
Feb 06, 2007
Competence with and without concepts. A useful distinction? "There are also two kinds of incompetence. One kind arises from a lack of concepts or linguistic structures. The competent clerk who cannot troubleshoot a breakdown... The other kind of incompetence maintains an abundance of concepts without the ability to perform... Alfred North Whitehead referred to these linguistic structures as 'inert ideas'." Hm. Reacting to some of my thoughts, Haskins writes, "The faculty's competency is based entirely on linguistic structures and [it] thus functions as incompetent in the realms of action."
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