On the grammatical aspects of radical scientific discovery

Aristides Baltas

Philosophia Scientiae (2004)

  • Volume: 8, Issue: 1, page 169-201
  • ISSN: 1281-2463

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Radical scientific discovery and the associated radical “paradigm change” are treated here as following from the disclosure of what I call background ‘assumptions’. These are taken as more or less equivalent to the “hinge propositions” that Wittgenstein discusses in his On Certainty. On this basis, various issues connected to meaning variance, theory change, incommensurability and so forth, are discussed. It is shown that Kuhn’s overall account need not, with qualifications, imply either idealism or relativism while rationality and scientific progress can be saved in a way that may be acceptable by practising scientists.

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Baltas, Aristides. "On the grammatical aspects of radical scientific discovery." Philosophia Scientiae 8.1 (2004): 169-201. <http://eudml.org/doc/103712>.

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