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Chain of Reasoning Connection and the Problem of Incommensurability of Scientific Theories [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīThis article delves into Dudley Shapere’s approach to addressing semantic incommensurability, focusing on the “chain of reasoning connection.” We will start by reviewing the concept of incommensurability and its various types. Then, we will take a closer
Ehsan Javadi Abhari +1 more
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, 2021 The possibility of incommensurability indicates that some predicates are different: when two things are incommensurable, neither is determinately better than the other nor are they equally as good as each other.
Anders Herlitz +6 more
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Philosophical or Empirical Incommensurability of Frequentist Versus Bayesian Thinking
Ekonometria, 2021 Frequentists and Bayesians disagree about the soundness of performing calculations based, in an important part, on prior information. The disagreement goes back to a basic philosophical disagreement about how to conceptualize the meaning of probability ...
David Trafimow
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Saving Incommensurability: Semantic Theory of Meaning or Semantic Theory of Science?
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004 Carrier’s paper is mainly a defence of incommensurability as “a sensible notion”, on the basis of the context theory of meaning. I shall here discuss his semantic reconstruction of the notion.
Soazig Le Bihan
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Do Kuhn’s Cases of the Theory-Change from Newtonian to Einsteinian Physics Support His Incommensurability Thesis? [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 In order to support his revolutionary view on scientific change, Kuhn suggests that there exist two separate aspects of the theory-change from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics that support his incommensurability thesis.
Kyoung-Eun Yang
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Non-Standard Stainless: Laruelle, Inconsistency and Sense-impressions
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2018 "Stains" can serve as a metaphor for the role allotted to meaninglessness not only by partisans of the deterritorializing force of "brute matter", but also by diagnosers of symbolic incompleteness.
David Bremner
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Interplay between organic cations and inorganic framework and incommensurability in hybrid lead-halide perovskite CH3NH3PbBr3 [PDF]
, 2017 Organic-inorganic coupling in the hybrid lead-halide perovskite is a central issue in rationalizing the outstanding photovoltaic performance of these emerging materials.
Yinsheng Guo +8 more
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Realism, irrationality, and spinor spaces
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023 Mathematics, as Eugene Wigner noted, is unreasonably effective in physics. The argument of this paper is that the disproportionate attention that philosophers have paid to discrete structures such as the natural numbers, for which a nominalist ...
Adrian Heathcote
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Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2023 Kuhn’s radical meaning variance thesis implies that scientists, who work in different paradigms cannot understand each other. This, however, seems incredible.
Adam Grobler
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« Manuscrit de Mr Dangicourt » : système métaphysique néantiste d’un disciple de Leibniz
Sjuttonhundratal, 2009 Dangicourt’s Manuscript: The metaphysical system of nothingness from a disciple of Leibniz The collection of clandestine philosophical manuscripts at the Helsinki University Library contains, among other typical seventeenth and early eighteenth century ...
Timo Kaitaro
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