Method and Language
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.
[Not in series - Grüner, 137] 1982. vii, 208 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:B.R. Grüner Publishing Company
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. 1–5
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Method and Language | pp. 7–16
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System and Logic | pp. 17–27
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Rationality and Scientific Method | pp. 29–44
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Progress in Science | pp. 45–57
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Popper's Logic | pp. 59–65
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Inductive Language | pp. 67–78
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Background Knowledge | pp. 79–97
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Second Guessing Research | pp. 99–118
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Translatability as a Norm in Quine | pp. 119–124
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Davidson's Principle of Individuation | pp. 125–140
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Goodman's Pictorial Worldmaking | pp. 141–146
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Dummett's Molecular Model of Language | pp. 147–152
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Raising the Ghost in the Machine | pp. 153–166
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Kripke on Sense and Reference | pp. 167–174
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Kripke on Natural Kinds and Possible Worlds | pp. 175–187
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Possible Worlds and Human Freedom | pp. 189–194
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Index | pp. 195–208
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Linguistics
Philosophy
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