@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Kuhn,Thomas S.}, subject = {Meaning Change}, note = {I 115 Change of concept/Change of meaning/Kuhn: There is an obligation to alter the meaning of fixed and familiar concepts. I 140 Change of meaning/Change of concept/Change of theory/Kuhn: Before Copernicus, the sun was also called "planet". - Then they did not only learn the meaning of "planet" or what the sun was, but the meaning of "planet" changed - in a way that they could continue to make a useful distinction. I 142 The same procedures now give evidence of very different aspects. I 210 Meaning change/change of concept/Kuhn: Because the vocabularies of discussions about new theories consist mainly of the same expressions, some of these expressions must be applied differently to nature - hence the superiority of one theory over another cannot be proven in discussion. >Incommensurability, >Theory change, >Paradigms. }, note = { Kuhn I Th. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago 1962 German Edition: Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen Frankfurt 1973 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=204728} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=204728} }