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
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1–5
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Method and Language
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7–16
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System and Logic
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17–27
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Rationality and Scientific Method
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29–44
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Progress in Science
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45–57
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Popper's Logic
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59–65
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Inductive Language
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67–78
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Background Knowledge
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79–97
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Second Guessing Research
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99–118
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Translatability as a Norm in Quine
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119–124
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Davidson's Principle of Individuation
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125–140
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Goodman's Pictorial Worldmaking
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141–146
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Dummett's Molecular Model of Language
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147–152
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Raising the Ghost in the Machine
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153–166
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Kripke on Sense and Reference
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167–174
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Kripke on Natural Kinds and Possible Worlds
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175–187
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Possible Worlds and Human Freedom
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189–194
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Index
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195–208
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Subjects
Linguistics
Philosophy
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