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Evolution and Continuity In Scientific Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Dudley Shapere
Dudley Shapere*
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Wake Forest University
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Abstract

The alleged problem of “incommensurability” is examined, and attempts to explain scientific change in terms of concepts of meaning and reference are analyzed and rejected. A way of understanding scientific change through a properly developed concept of “reasons” is presented, and the issues of reasons, meaning, and reference are placed in the context of this broader interpretation of scientific change.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , September 1989, pp. 419 - 437
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Copyright © 1989 The Philosophy of Science Association

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