Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change 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. Autor: Joseph (Hope College LaPorte Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press Rok wydania: 2009 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 232 Wymiary: 15.1 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm Ilustracje: 1 Halftones, unspecified; 6 Line drawings, unspecified Język: angielski ISBN: 9780521108102