Commensurability, comparability, communicability

Kuhn, T. S. (1983). Commensurability, comparability, communicability. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1982(2), 669-688.

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Conference paper

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Primary research

Year

1983

Volume

1982

Issue

2

Pages

669-688

DOI registrant

University of Chicago Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1982.2.192452matched

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communication_media_studies

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• Translation and Conceptual Bridging
  • Some concepts translate easily (mathematical principles often transfer across domains because their abstraction is already domain-independent); others do not (culturally embedded concepts like honor or shame may have no structural equivalent in different cultural systems), a problem Kuhn (1983) sharpened in his account of commensurability, comparability, and communicability across paradigms.

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    Kuhn's opening confirms the incommensurability theme between theories, but not the translatable versus untranslatable concept examples.

    “Twenty years have passed since Paul Feyerabend and I first used in print a term we had borrowed from mathematics to describe the relaationship between successive scientific theories.”

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