Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication (Ashgate by Xinli Wang

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By Xinli Wang

A dominant epistemological assumption in the back of Western philosophy is that it really is attainable to find a few type of commonality among languages, traditions, or cultures - comparable to a typical language or lexicon, or a standard suggestion of rationality - which makes complete linguistic verbal exchange among them regularly possible. Xinli Wang argues that the thesis of incommensurability demanding situations this assumption through exploring why and the way linguistic conversation among conceptually disparate languages, traditions, or cultures is usually problematical or even unimaginable. in line with Wang's presuppositional interpretation of incommensurability, the true mystery of incommensurability lies within the ontological set-ups of 2 competing presuppositional languages. This ebook presents many unique contributions to the dialogue of incommensurability and similar matters in philosophy and gives worthy insights to students in different fields, similar to anthropology, conversation, linguistics, medical schooling, and cultural studies.

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