Method and language
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Method and language
Grüner, 1982
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This monograph explores the relationship between method and language. The notion of method is inherent in everything we can claim to understand. The language conventions which make a question meaningful cannot be challenged at the same time the problem is posed. Problems exist only relatively to accepted ways of thinking and doing; verification or falsification can take place only when we agree what hypotheses are in question. Our ability to be rational and critical - that is, to apply logic to our beliefs - depends on the kinds of distinctions we are able to make in our language.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Method and Language
- 3. System and Logic
- 4. Rationality and Scientific Method
- 5. Progress in Science
- 6. Popper's Logic
- 7. Inductive Language
- 8. Background Knowledge
- 9. Second Guessing Research
- 10. Translatability as a Norm in Quine
- 11. Davidson's Principle of Individuation
- 12. Goodman's Pictorial Worldmaking
- 13. Dummett's Molecular Model of Language
- 14. Raising the Ghost in the Machine
- 15. Kripke on Sense and Reference
- 16. Kripke on Natural Kinds and Possible Worlds
- 17. Possible Worlds and Human Freedom
- 18. Index
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