CORRELATION BETWEEN CRITICAL ARGUMENTS OF THEORY-LADENNESSAND INCOMMENSURABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC THEORIES
St. E. Ovchinnikov
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: парадигма, теоретическая нагруженность, неопределенность, несоизмеримость, paradigm, theory-ladenness, indeterminacy, incommensurability
Abstract
The paper is aimed at demonstrating the justification of logical correlation between main critical arguments. Basing on the analysis, we revealed that there was a mixture of two understandings of experiment results, those are ascertaining of results and their interpretation within the ontology of the theory in question. We show that incommensurability as a relativistic argument appears because of such mixing. We found out that there was a logical circle in sceptic argumentation related to scientific knowledge. Particularly, theory-ladenness of observations as a relativistic argument loses its meaning because various theories differ in basic notions and may explain empirical data in parallel without contradictions.
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