NDLI: The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising

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Author	Kertész, András
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Chomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory. The paper raises the following problem: What kinds of contradictions may be tolerated between the data and the hypotheses in theoretical linguistics? First a model of paraconsistent logic is introduced which differentiates between week and strong contradiction. As a second step, a case study is carried out which exemplifies that the principle of epistemological tolerance may be interpreted as the tolerance of week contradiction. The third step of the argumentation focuses on another case study which exemplifies that the principle of epistemological tolerance must not be interpreted as the tolerance of strong contradiction. The reason for the latter insight is the unreliability and the uncertainty of introspective data. From this finding the author draws the conclusion that it is the integration of different data types that may lead to the improvement of current theoretical linguistics and that the integration of different data types requires a novel methodology which, for the time being, is not available.
Starting Page	91
Ending Page	108
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12331821
Journal	Foundations of Science
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728471
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-07-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Chomsky Galilean style Epistemological tolerance Theoretical linguistics Methodology of the Social Sciences Mathematical Logic and Foundations Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History and Philosophy of Science

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