Incommensurability -11: The concept of incommensurability in Feyerabend’s dissertation of 1951 (original) (raw)

Abstract

""The aim of my talk is to give an account of the idea of incommensurability as it can be found in Feyerabend’s unpublished dissertation “Zur Theorie der Basissätze” from 1951. I will defend three claims: 1) Feyerabend’s early notion of incommensurability was a product of his belated engagement in the Vienna Circle’s protocol sentence debate. 2) The early Feyerabend didn’t consider incommensurability to be a prima facie factual phenomenon, but a consequence of certain set of stipulated premises, which he firstly developed in his dissertation. 3) While diachronic incommensurability was conceived as a real consequence, the possibility of synchronic incommensurability was only considered as a thought experiment.""

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