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Meta-incommensurability Revisited
- Title
- Meta-incommensurability Revisited
- Authors
- Cheon, Hyundeuk
- Ewha Authors
- 천현득
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 천현득
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Journal Title
- THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA
- ISSN
- 0495-4548
- Citation
- THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 243 - 259
- Keywords
- incommensurability; meta-incommensurability; scientific realism; Sankey; Hoyningen-Huene; token-referential overlap
- Publisher
- SERVICIO EDITORIAL UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO
- Indexed
- AHCI; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- A popular rejoinder to the potential threat that incommensurability might pose to scientific realism has been the referential response: despite meaning variance, there can be referential continuity, which is sufficient for rational theory choice. This response has been charged with meta-incommensurability, according to which it begs the question by assuming a realist metaphysics. However, realists take it to be a rhetorical device that hinders productive discussion. By reconstructing the debate, this paper aims to demonstrate two things. First, there are unexpected commonalities between realists and non-realists, meaning that the charge of meta-incommensurability is more or less exaggerated. Second, meta-incommensurability, which is to be found in the ways to make sense of referential overlap at the token level, still plays a role in the realism debate.
- DOI
- 10.1387/theoria.7125
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- 연구기관 > 이화인문과학원 > Journal papers
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