Questions tagged [incommensurability]
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is perceptual / observational incommensurability equivalent to ontological incommensurability?
perceptual/observational—observational evidence cannot provide a common basis for theory comparison, since perceptual experience is theory-dependent
Kuhn expresses or builds on the idea that participants in different disciplinary matrices will see…
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What kind of incommensurability does Kuhn claim rules out convergent realism?
A standard conception of the transition from classical to relativistic physics is that although Einstein's theory of relativity supersedes Newton's theory, what we have is an improvement or generalization whereby Newton's theory is a special case…
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Is Kuhn referring to Quine's holism while developing his later Semantic Incommensurability Thesis?
Kuhn's view as expressed in the passage quoted above depends upon meaning holism—the claim that the meanings of terms are interrelated in such a way that changing the meaning of one term results in changes in the meanings of related terms: “To make…
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Is the set of all good things incommensurable with the sets we use the natural/related numbers for?
Suppose that there is a set of all good things, and that it is well-founded. Then it would not be an element of itself, i.e. would not be a good thing. Maybe it would be hypergood, but maybe it would be neutral; for it to be evil seems…
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With regard to the methodological incommensurability, does Kuhn talk about astrology?
According to Kuhn's methodological incommensurability, puzzle-solutions from different eras of normal science are evaluated by reference to different paradigm and methods.
This implies that what was called "scientific method" in the past may no…
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Where did Kuhn write his last thoughts about incommensurability?
Kuhn continued to develop his conceptual approach to incommensurability. At the time of his death he had made considerable progress on a book in which he related incommensurability to issues in developmental psychology and concept…
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