Language and the Limits of Science
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angličtina
Original language name
Language and the Limits of Science
Original language description
To see science as a human activity having some fundamental limitations is a Kantian insight. Even though his views have lost in many areas of philosophy their appeal, Kant's thesis about fundamental limitations of science is still compelling. If we try to base this thesis on language instead of on intuition, it is possible even today to argue in a technical way that every scientific theory has its analytical and expressive boundaries. By moving from one linguistic framework to the next one these boundaries, can shift, nevertheless, they never disappear. In the present paper I would like to study the shifts of the analytical and expressive boundaries imposed on our thought by language. For this reason I will analyse several examples taken from the history of physics. One of the surprising outcomes of these analyses will be a new interpretation of Kant's antinomies of pure reason. If we relate Kant's antinomies not to reason as such, but to the linguistic framework of the particular physical theory, the antinomies retain their validity. In the form of the analytical and expressive boundaries of language the antinomies are a recurring feature of all physical theories. Thus Kant in his antinomies discovered the first manifestations of a universal epistemological fact.
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Limits of Science: An Analysis from 'Barriers' to 'Confines'
ISBN
978-90-04-32539-5
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
69-93
Number of pages of the book
216
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
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