Reflections on segregating and assessing areas of competence.
Various complexities that arise in the application of legal and/or clinical criteria to the actual assessment of competence/capacity are discussed, and a particular way of understanding the nature of such criteria is recommended.
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Department of Philosophy, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada.
Silberfeld
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