The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories (Stanford Encyclopedia of . . . The entry is organized around the 1962 popularizations of the concept of incommensurability by Kuhn and Feyerabend and the basic ideas that influenced their developments of this concept First, Kuhn’s notion of incommensurability as it was initially developed is characterized, as is its cause and its purported consequences
Incommensurables | Philosophy, Mathematics Physics | Britannica The geometers immediately following Pythagoras (c 580–c 500 bc) shared the unsound intuition that any two lengths are “commensurable” (that is, measurable) by integer multiples of some common unit To put it another way, they believed that the whole (or counting) numbers, and their ratios
Incommensurability in Science - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies Incommensurability has played a starring role in a variety of controversial discussions about the nature of knowledge, from Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid to Albert Einstein, Thomas S Kuhn, and Paul Feyerabend
Commensurability (philosophy of science) - Wikipedia Under this meaning incommensurability goes beyond the field of semantics and covers everything relating to its practical application, from the study of problems to the associated methods and rules for their resolution
INCOMMENSURABLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster -ˈmen (t)-sh (ə-)rə- : not commensurable broadly : lacking a basis of comparison in respect to a quality normally subject to comparison incommensurability ˌin-kə-ˌmen (t)-s (ə-)rə-ˈbi-lə-tē -ˌmen (t)-sh (ə-)rə- noun
Incommensurability - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics Hopefully, incommensurability is not a fatality (Sousa, 2010) But the cure should not be worse than the illness: we must avoid the solution of a unique atheoretical consensus like ICD or DSM
Incommensurability and meaning (Chapter 5) - Thomas Kuhn The general idea of incommensurability is that the existence of changes in perception, world, standards of evaluation or in the meanings of key theoretical terms undermines traditional, Old Rationalist conceptions of progress as the accumulation of knowledge or as increasing verisimilitude