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- The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories (Stanford Encyclopedia of . . .
Since 1962, the incommensurability of scientific theories has been a widely discussed, controversial idea that was instrumental in the historical turn in the philosophy of science and the establishment of the sociology of science as a professional discipline
- INCOMMENSURABLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of INCOMMENSURABLE is not commensurable; broadly : lacking a basis of comparison in respect to a quality normally subject to comparison Did you know?
- 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
- Incommensurability in Science - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
In 1962 in independent, influential publications, Thomas S Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend suggested the provocative idea that some scientific theories (concepts, paradigms, worldviews) separated by a scientific revolution are incommensurable They have “no common measure ”
- 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
- Incommensurability, plain difference and communication in . . .
Two mathematical magnitudes are said to be incommensurable if their ratio cannot be expressed by a number which is an integer For example, the radius and the circumference of a circle are incommensurable because their ratio is expressed by the irrational number π
- Incommensurability - A Companion to the Philosophy of Science - Wiley . . .
Along with “paradigm” and “scientific revolution,” “incommensurability” is one of the three most influential expressions associated with the “new philosophy of science” first articulated in the early 1960s by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend (see kuhn and feyerabend)
- Incommensurability - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
In the argument given above, incommensurability has mainly been seen as a formal feature, as the impossibility to express or measure two values on a common scale Some authors put forward a more substantive notion of incommensurability
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