Explanatory Translation

Beyond the Kuhnian Model of Conceptual Change

By: V. Rantala

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Hardcover | 31 August 2002

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In this book, Veikko Rantala makes a systematic attempt to understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications. The notion of translation investigated here is called explanatory, but it is not a translation in the standard sense of the word since it admits of conceptual change. Such translations can take various degrees of precision, and therefore they can occur in contexts of different kinds: from everyday discourse to literary texts to scientific change. The book generalizes some earlier approaches to translation, especially the one presented in David Pearce's monograph Roads to Commensurability. Rantala argues that the notion has something in common with Thomas Kuhn's earlier conception of scientific change and his views of language learning, but it can be used to go beyond Kuhn's well-known ideas and challenge his criticism concerning the import of the correspondence relation.

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Preface
Introduction
The Pragmatics and Hermeneutics of Conceptual Change
Prologue: The Correspondence Principle
Translation
Examples and Applications of Local Translation
Global Translation
The Logic and Pragmatics of Scientific Change
The Correspondence Relation
Intertheoretic Explanation
Case Studies
The Formal Basis of the Correspondence Relation
Theories and Logics
A Formal Treatment of Case Studies
Appendix: Definability
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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