Taxonomy, truth-value gaps and incommensurability: A reconstruction of Kuhn's taxonomic interpretation of incommensurability

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 465-485

  Wang, Xinli ^a  

^a JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language communication; Incommensurability; Lexicons; Taxonomic structures; Thomas Kuhn; Truth value; Untraslatability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036755996     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-3681(01)00039-5     Document Type: Article

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