The Role of Philosophy of Science in Quantitative Linguistics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/lf-2022-0003" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/lf-2022-0003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0003" target="_blank" >10.2478/lf-2022-0003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Role of Philosophy of Science in Quantitative Linguistics

Original language description

The paper aims to evaluate the role of the philosophy of science in contemporary quantitative linguistics. The primary goal is the reflection of the scientific methods and models of scientific explanations (Köhler 1986, 2012) used in quantitative linguistics. The paper shows that the current philosophy of science has adopted some new approaches to explanation that are conducive to quantitative linguistics (Craver, Darden 2013, Eck, Mennes 2016). Above all, the philosophy of science offers new models of non-causal explanations (Reutlinger, Saatsi 2018; Lange 2017). The paper’s primary goal is to propose a new topological model of explanation in system-theoretical linguistics, following Kostić’s (2019a) and Huneman’s (2018) approaches. This model of ex-planation overcomes various difficulties of functional explanation, such as the nature of the structural axiom and the functional equivalents. Simultaneously, it establishes a non-causal form of linguistic explanation which builds on the previous analysis of quantitative linguists (Andres 2009; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Solé 2003; Hřebíček 2002).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Linguistic Frontiers

ISSN

2544-6339

e-ISSN

2544-6339

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

13-23

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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