Incommensurability and cross-language communication
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Incommensurability and cross-language communication
（Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy）
Ashgate, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-361) and index
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Description
A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them always attainable. Xinli Wang argues that the thesis of incommensurability challenges this assumption by exploring why and how linguistic communication between two conceptually disparate languages, traditions, or cultures is often problematic and even unattainable. According to Wang's presuppositional interpretation of incommensurability, the real secret of incommensurability lies in the ontological set-ups of two competing presuppositional languages. This book provides many original contributions to the discussion of incommensurability and related issues in philosophy and offers valuable insights to scholars in other fields, such as anthropology, communication, linguistics, scientific education, and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
- 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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