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Incompatibility and Dilemma of Scientific Paradigms Incommensurability; Proposition of a Semantic Theory

Rahman Sharifzadeh

Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2012, , Pages 69-91

Abstract

Kuhn argues that while revival scientific paradigms are incommensurable claims they are incompatible as well. This brings about a problem: how two incommensurable theories could be incompatible? Incommensurability entails that two rival theories should have different cognitive domain and taxonomic structure, ... Read More