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Theory and Meaning (Hardcover)
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Theory and Meaning (Hardcover)
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This book is concerned with those aspects of the theory of meaning
for scientific terms that are relevant to questions about the
evaluation of scientific theories. The contemporary debate about
theory choice in science is normally presented as a conflict
between two sets of ideas. On the one hand are notions of
objectivity, realism, rationality, and progress in science. On the
other is the view that meanings depend on theory, with associated
claims about the theory dependence of observation, the theoretical
context account of meaning, incommensurability, and so on. The book
shows that there is no real contest here; that the two sets of
ideas are in fact quite compatible. More specifically, it argues
that the meanings of all scientific terms, including those used to
report observations, are inseparable from the total context of
surrounding theory and so will inevitably vary with theoretical
change, but that this is quite consistent with a broadly
objectivist account of science. The first half of the book shows
how ideas about the theory dependence of observation and meaning
have led to the breakdown of the traditional empiricist account of
science, and how some of the more obvious responses to these ideas
are inadequate. The second half shows how these ideas can
satisfactorily be accommodated within a non-relativist account of
science.
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