Reductivism versus perspectivism versus holism: A key theme in philosophy of science, and its application to modern linguistics.
We use recent developments within philosophy of science and within certain strands of linguistic research to throw light on each other. According to Ronald Giere's perspectivist philosophy of science, the scientific understanding of reality must proceed along different, mutually irreducible lines of...
| Publicado en: | Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 56 - 81 |
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Feb2024
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