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Two Routes to Commensurability,bility of scientific theories. The results have not always been encouraging. As we saw, Stegmüller maintains that theories can be cognitively compared when viewed as ., though they may be noncomparable as sets of statements. The fallacy here, I argued, lies in the belief that the structural and ling

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Meaning Change and Translatability,g norms of empiricism and scientific realism to a degree that many rationalist philosophers find intolerable. Feyerabend’s response amounts to a critique of the very concept of scientific methodology and rationality, and a plea for the meta-methodological principle ‘a(chǎn)nything goes’.

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Two Routes to Commensurability, switching to a new metascientific paradigm thus collapses; whilst his and Balzer’s attempts to reinstate the claim by proffering strict criteria for commensurability must also be rejected, on the grounds argued in Chapter 2.

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Book 1987nce was awakened in the formative years of my philosophi- cal studies by my teacher, Jerzy Giedymin. From him I have learnt not only to enjoy philosophical problems but also to beware of simpleminded solutions to them. The vibrant seminars of Paul Feyerabend held at Sussex University in 1974 left me

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