Natural kinds and conceptual change
Auteur :
LaPorte, Joseph
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521825993
Date de publication :
8 déc. 2003
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,1 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
510 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this illuminating book, Joseph LaPorte argues that scientists do not discover that sentences about natural kinds, like 'Whales are mammals, not fish', are true rather than false. Instead, scientists find that these sentences were vague in the language of earlier speakers and they refine the meanings of the relevant natural-kind terms to make the sentences true.