On the grammatical aspects of radical scientific discovery
Aristides Baltas (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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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 . These are taken as more or less equivalent to the “hinge propositions” that Wittgenstein discusses in his . 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...