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Preface

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Characterizing incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language

Léna Soler (2004)

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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”,...

Incommensurability and laboratory science

Emiliano Trizio (2004)

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The aim of the article is to establish relations between Kuhn’s general characterization of incommensurability as the impossibility to translate the taxonomies pertaining to rival scientific theories into one another and Hacking’s more specific version of incommensurability affecting competing theories that have stabilized relatively to different laboratory equipments and measurement techniques. On the basis of an analysis of the nature of scientific taxonomies that takes its inspiration...