Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication

Contents: The many facets of incommensurability; Incommensurability as untranslatability; Incommensurability and conceptual schemes; In defense 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 defense of the notion of semantic presupposition; The structure of a presuppositional 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; Index.

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• Filosofia da linguagem
• Filosofia da Ciência
• Epistemologia e teoria do conhecimento: Filosofia
• Filosofia da mente

Cross-Language Communication;understanding;Cross-language Understanding;Scheme Content Dualism;Common Language;Translation Failure Interpretation;Traditional Chinese Medical Theory;Cross-language Communication Breakdown;Semantic Presuppositions;Abnormal Discourse;Presuppositional Interpretation;Complete Communication Breakdown;Propositional Understanding;Quinean Notion;Western Medical Language;Presuppositional Languages;Alternative Conceptual Schemes;Gadamer's Conversation Model;Chinese Medical Language;Habermas's Discourse Model;Scientific Languages;Communication Breakdown;Conceptual Schemes;Phlogiston Theory;Yin Yang Doctrine;Scheme Content Distinction