Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The thesis of the theoretical ladenness of observation is equally accepted by Popper and Kuhn, but the two argue different consequences. If Popper believes that the theoretical ladenness does not prevent the application of the falsificationist methodology, Kuhn, although he also accepts a similar mechanism of scientific change based on reduction ad absurdum, proposes a semantic approach and claims that the impossibility of a neutral language inevitably leads to incommensurability. My goal in this paper is to follow this argumentative path and to better fix the epistemological positions of the two regarding the possibility of comparing the theories with each other and with nature.
Authors: Universitatea din Bucuresti, Constantin Stoenescu
Institution: University of Bucharest
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409510438