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| Interpretation: A) Making statements about other statements, whereby new vocabulary may be introduced. If no new vocabulary is introduced, new information can be obtained by changing the syntactic grouping. B) In logic, interpretation is the insertion of values (objects) instead of the constants or free variables. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Th. Kuhn on Interpretation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 134 Interpretation/Theory/Science/Kuhn: The transformation from phlogiston to oxygen does not look like an interpretation - how could it when there were no unchanging data to be interpreted by the scientists - the scientist is less of an interpreter than someone who wears erecting lenses. --- I 209 Interpretation/Kuhn: Both in the metaphorical and in the literal sense of "seeing", interpretation begins where perception ends. >Observation language, >Observation, >Measuring, >Perception._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Kuhn I Th. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago 1962 German Edition: Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen Frankfurt 1973 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19