Show simple item record

Incommensurability, types of phenomena and relevant incompatibility (part I)

dc.creatorCéspedes, Esteban
dc.date2018-12-27
dc.identifierhttps://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/52009
dc.descriptionThis is the first part of a three-part paper on incommensurability. Although incommensurability between theories has been object of study during many years, there does not seem to be a clear consensus regarding the notion of meaning according to which it should be characterised. Based on the notion of incommensurability proposed here, the common ground between incommensurable theories is neither determined by the sense nor by the reference of the relevant terms, but by a given phenomenon type, which fixes the subject matter of inquiry. Phenomenon types are understood as expressions that are associated with some phenomenon and describable or understandable in some language. In this proposal, two theories can refer to a same phenomenon type even if they are mutually incommensurable about the concepts used in them to grasp it. This possibility may serve as a way of fixing the subject matter of an investigation and, thus, to characterise the common ground between incommensurable paths of inquiry.en-US
dc.descriptionThis is the first part of a three-part paper on incommensurability. Although incommensurability between theories has been object of study during many years, there does not seem to be a clear consensus regarding the notion of meaning according to which it should be characterised. Based on the notion of incommensurability proposed here, the common ground between incommensurable theories is neither determined by the sense nor by the reference of the relevant terms, but by a given phenomenon type, which fixes the subject matter of inquiry. Phenomenon types are understood as expressions that are associated with some phenomenon and describable or understandable in some language. In this proposal, two theories can refer to a same phenomenon type even if they are mutually incommensurable about the concepts used in them to grasp it. This possibility may serve as a way of fixing the subject matter of an investigation and, thus, to characterise the common ground between incommensurable paths of inquiry.es-ES
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.formatapplication/epub+zip
dc.formatapplication/xml
dc.formataudio/mpeg
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherUniversidad de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Socialeses-ES
dc.relationhttps://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/52009/54510
dc.relationhttps://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/52009/55135
dc.relationhttps://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/52009/55198
dc.relationhttps://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/52009/57370
dc.sourceCinta de Moebio. Revista de Epistemología de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 63 (2018): Diciembre; 323-330es-ES
dc.source0717-554X
dc.source0717-554X
dc.titleIncommensurability, types of phenomena and relevant incompatibility (part I)en-US
dc.titleIncommensurability, types of phenomena and relevant incompatibility (part I)es-ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record