Characterizing incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language
Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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In this article I present, first, a criticism of certain aspects of the way Martin Carrier characterizes semantic incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language. Subsequently I introduce some distinctions and put forward some proposals in order to pursue the same project. It will be argued that two different conceptions of the notion “conditions of applications” and, correlatively, two different meanings of the clause “preservations of the inferential relations”,...