The Semantics of Science
The Semantics of Science proposes a radical new rethinking of science and scientific discourse. Roy Harris argues that supercategories such as science, art, religion and history are themselves verbal constructs, and thus language-dependent. Because each supercategory is constructed differently, it is necessary to pay attention to the linguistic process by which a discourse such as 'science' has developed. Through this view it is possible to observe that the function of the supercategory is to integrate what would otherwise be separate activities and enquiries, and the result of this integratio
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Preface
Introduction
1 Language and the Aristotelian scientist
2 Before and after Aristotle
3 Semantics and the Royal Society
4 Science in the kitchen
5 The rhetoric of linguistic science
6 Mathematics and the language of science
7 Science and common sense
8 Supercategory semantics
9 Integrating science
Appendix 1 Einstein on science and reality
Appendix 2 Heisenberg on language
References
Index
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