A comparison of Derrida and Davidson on incommensurable scientific languages

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Donald Davidson denies that there are incommensurable scientific languages: languages which cannot be translated into our contemporary language. What about Derrida? What is his perspective on this matter? This paper presents a broadly Derridean objection to Susan Carey’s argument for incommensurability.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme.Donald Davidson - 1974 - In Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin (eds.), The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce Through the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 286-298.
Conceptual Differences Between Children and Adults.Susan Carey - 1988 - Mind and Language 3 (3):167-181.
Derrida and Analytical Philosophy: Speech Acts and their Force.Sarah Richmond - 1996 - European Journal of Philosophy 4 (1):38-62.

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