The intelligibility objection against underdetermination
Vol 16, No 1 (2012) • Principia: an international journal of epistemology
Autor: Rogério Passos Severo
Abstract:
One of the objections against the thesis of underdetermination of theories by observations is that it is unintelligible. Any two empirically equivalent theories — so the argument goes—are in principle intertranslatable, hence cannot count as rivals in any non-trivial sense. Against that objection, this paper shows that empirically equivalent theories may contain theoretical sentences that are not intertranslatable. Examples are drawn from a related discussion about incommensurability that shows that theoretical non-intertranslatability is possible.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n1p121
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2012v16n1p121/22775
Palavras-Chave: Empirical equivalence,underdetermination,; in
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