Incommensurability

In Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeifer (eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. pp. 370-373 (2005)
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This is a short introductory discussion of the idea of incommensurability as it is used in the philosophy of science.

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