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- Title
RELATIVISM, COMMENSURABILITY AND TRANSLATABILITY.
- Authors
Glock, Hans-Johann
- Abstract
This paper discusses conceptual relativism. The main focus is on the contrasting ideas of Wittgenstein and Davidson, with Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend and Hacker in supporting roles. I distinguish conceptual from alethic and ontological relativism, defend a distinction between conceptual scheme and empirical content, and reject the Davidsonian argument against the possibility of alternative conceptual schemes: there can be conceptual diversity without failure of translation, and failure of translation is not necessarily incompatible with recognizing a practice as linguistic. Conceptual relativism may be untenable, but not for the hermeneutic reasons espoused by Davidson.
- Subjects
RELATIVITY; THEORY of knowledge; COGNITION &; culture; IDEA (Philosophy); CONCEPTUALISM; SCHOLASTICISM (Theology)
- Publication
Ratio, 2007, Vol 20, Issue 4, p377
- ISSN
0034-0006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00374.x