| Series |
Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy. ^A512939
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| Contents |
The many facets of incommensurability -- Incommensurability as untranslatability -- Incommensurability and conceptual schemes -- In defence of the very notion of conceptual schemes -- Case studies : the emergence of truth-value gaps -- Toward the presuppositional interpretation -- Kuhn's taxonomic incommensurability : a reconstruction -- A defence of the notion of semantic presupposition -- The structure of a pre-suppositional language -- Existential presumptions and universal principles -- Categorical frameworks -- The failure of cross-language understanding -- Hermeneutic understanding in abnormal discourse -- Informative communication breakdown : the transmission model -- Dialogical communication breakdown I : Gadamer's conversation model -- Dialogical communication breakdown II : Habermas's discourse model -- The concept of incommensurability. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-361) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006011548 |
| ISBN | 075463034X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754630340 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
