An alternative (conceptual) framework is a conceptual framework for a topic that is judged as being alternative to (inconsistent with) canonical accounts of a topic – often because it includes one or more alternative conceptions.
e.g.,
"Sometimes a common alternative conception may be embedded into a more extensive conceptual framework of ideas, as in what has been labelled the 'octet framework'." (Taber, 2020, p.451)
(Note. The term 'alternative framework' or 'alternative conceptual framework' is sometimes the term is used as synonymous to 'alternative conception' but it has been suggested that conception should be used for discrete notions, and framework for more expansive networks of linked conceptions that include non-canonical elements.)
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