Scientific realism and the semantic incommensurability thesis

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 196-202

  Sankey, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incommensurability; Meta incommensurability; Paul Feyerabend; Paul Hoyningen Huene; Scientific realism; Thomas Kuhn

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349148879     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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