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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 The Many Facets of Incommensurability
1. Incommensurability as Communication Breakdown
2. The Current State of Affairs
3. The Many Facets of Incommensurability
4. The Presuppositional Interpretation: A Chapter Review
5. Scientific Language, Trivalent Semantics
Chapter 2 Incommensurability as Untranslatability
1. The Received Interpretation: Incommensurability as Untranslatability
2. An Influential Line of Criticism
3. Feyerabend’s and Kuhn’s Contextual Theories of Meaning
4. Meaning Continuity and Translatability
5. Untranslatability and Incommensurability
6. The Very Notion of Translation
7. Translation and Cross-Language Communication
8. Meaning Continuity and Cross-Language Translation
Chapter 3 Incommensurability and Conceptual Schemes
1. Conceptual Relativism and Incommensurability
2. The Very Notion of Conceptual Schemes Defined
3. The Quinean Linguistic Model of Conceptual Schemes
Chapter 4 In Defense of the Very Notion of Conceptual Schemes
1. Inverifiability of Alternative Conceptual Schemes
2. Two Assumptions of the Quinean Model
3. The Charge of the Third Dogma of Empiricism
4. A Non-Dogmatic Scheme-Content Dualism
5. Davidson Misses the Target
Chapter 5 Case Studies: The Emergence of Truth-Value Gaps
1. Traditional Chinese Medical Theory
2. Is Untranslatability a Barrier of Cross-Language Understanding?
3. What Causes Cross-Language Communication Breakdown?
4. The Emergence of a Truth-Value Gap
5. The Newton-Leibniz Debate on the Absoluteness of Space
6. The Newton-Einstein Debate on the Absoluteness of Time
Chapter 6 Toward the Presuppositional Interpretation
1. I. Hacking’s Styles of Scientific Reasoning
2. N. Rescher’s Factual Commitments
3. Introducing Presuppositional Languages
4. Conceptual Schemes Reconsidered
Chapter 7 Kuhn’s Taxonomic Incommensurability: A Reconstruction
1. The Early Development of Kuhn’s Positions on Incommensurability
2. Taxonomic Incommensurability
3. Truth-Value Status and Taxonomic Structures
4. The Role of Truth-or-Falsity in Cross-Language Communication
5. Unmatchable Taxonomic Structures
6. Truth-Value Gaps and Incommensurability
Chapter 8 A Defense of the Notion of Semantic Presupposition
1. The Duel between Russell and Strawson over Vacuous Sentences
2. A Formal Three-Valued Language
3. A Definition of Semantic Presupposition
4. Argument from the Distinction between Internal and External Negation
5. Argument from Counterexamples
6. Is the Notion of Truth-valuelessness Untenable?
Chapter 9 The Structure of a Presuppositional Language
1. A Theory of Truth-Value
2. The Occurrence of Truth-Value Gaps
3. The Structure of a Presuppositional Language
4. Some Features of a Presuppositional Language
Chapter 10 Existential Presumptions and Universal Principles
1. Existential Presumptions
2. Universal Principles
3. Modes of Reasoning and Hidden Universal Principles
4. The Pre-Modern Chinese Mode of Reasoning
Chapter 11 Categorical Frameworks
1. Categorical Frameworks
2. The Relativity of Lexical Taxonomies
3. Categorical Frameworks and Sortal Presuppositions
4. Compatible versus Incompatible Metaphysical Presuppositions
Chapter 12 The Failure of Cross-Language Understanding
1. The Propositional Understanding
2. The Essential Role of Metaphysical Presuppositions in Cross-Language Understanding
3. A Truth-Value Conditional Account of Understanding
4. Complete Communication Breakdown
Chapter 13 Hermeneutic Understanding in Abnormal Discourse
1. The Adoptive Approach to Cross-Language Understanding
2. Gadamer on Hermeneutic Understanding
3. Language Learning as Hermeneutic Interpretation
4. The Hermeneutic Dimension of Incommensurability
Chapter 14 Informative Communication Breakdown: The Transmission Model
1. Hermeneutic Understanding versus Propositional Understanding
2. A Bilingual in Cross-Language Communication
3. The Transmission Model of Cross-Language Communication
4. Communication Breakdown in Abnormal Discourse
5. Informative Communication as Mutual Understanding
Chapter 15 Dialogical Communication Breakdown I: Gadamer’s Conversation Model
1. Coming to an Understanding through Conversation
2. Communication as Conversation
3. Reaching a Common Language through a ‘Fusion of Horizons’?
4. The Common Language Requirement and Communication Breakdown
Chapter 16 Dialogical Communication Breakdown II: Habermas’s Discourse Model
1. From Gadamer to Habermas
2. Habermas on Communicative Action
3. Communication as Argumentative Discourse
4. Understanding: From Comprehension to Discourse
5. Truth Claims and Cross-Language Communication Breakdown
Chapter 17 The Concept of Incommensurability
1. Kinds of Communication Breakdowns
2. Truth-Value Gap and Communication Breakdown
3. The Concept of Incommensurability
4. Incommensurability, Incompatibility, and Comparability
Bibliography
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