Incommensurability and cross-language communication

The many facets of incommensurability

Incommensurability as communication breakdown

The current state of affairs

The presuppositional interpretation : a chapter review

Scientific language, trivalent semantics

Incommensurability as untranslatability

The received interpretation : incommensurability as untranslatability

An influential line of criticism

Feyerabend's and Kuhn's contextual theories of meaning

Meaning continuity and translatability

Untranslatability and incommensurability

The very notion of translation

Translation and cross-language communication

Meaning continuity and cross-language translation

Incommensurability and conceptual schemes

Conceptual relativism and incommensurability

The very notion of conceptual schemes defined

The Quinean linguistic model of conceptual schemes

In defence of the very notion of conceptual schemes

Inverifiability of alternative conceptual schemes

Two assumptions of the Quinean model

The charge of the third dogma of empiricism

A non-dogmatic scheme-content dualism

Davidson misses the target.

Case studies : the emergence of truth-value gaps

Traditional Chinese medical theory

Is untranslatability a barrier of cross-language understanding?

What causes cross-language communication breakdown?

The emergence of a truth-value gap

The Newton-Leibniz debate on the absoluteness of space

The Newton-Einstein debate on the absoluteness of time

Toward the presuppositional interpretation

I. Hacking's styles of reasoning

N. Rescher's factual commitments

Introducing presuppositional languages

Conceptual schemes reconsidered

Kuhn's taxonomic incommensurability : a reconstruction

The early development of Kuhn's positions on incommensurability

Taxonomic incommensurability

Truth-value status and taxonomic structures

The role of truth-or-falsity in cross-language communication

Unmatchable taxonomic structures

Truth-value gaps and incommensurability

A defence of the notion of semantic presupposition

The duel between Russell and Strawson over vacuous sentences

A formal three-valued language

A definition of semantic presupposition

Argument from the distinction between

Internal and external negation

Argument from counter examples

Is the notion of truth valuelessness untenable?

The structure of a pre-suppositional language

A theory of truth-value

The occurrence of truth-value gaps

The structure of a pre-suppositional language

Some features of a presuppositional language

Existential presumptions and universal principles.