Semantic Incommensurability and Empirical Comparability: The Case of Lorentz and Einstein
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Semantic incommensurability is understood as non-translatability of concepts taken from different theories. My aim is to give a rational reconstruction of the notion of incommensurability underlying the writings of Philosophia Scientiæ, 8 (1), 2004, 73–94.
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Semantic Incommensurability and Empirical Comparability:[0,1cm] The Case of Lorentz and Einstein
Semantic incommensurability is understood as non-translatability of concepts taken from different theories. My aim is to give a rational reconstruction of the notion of incommensurability underlying the writings of Philosophia Scientiæ, 8 (1), 2004, 73–94.
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