Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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Meaning change/semantic change: this is about the question whether the meaning of the terms of a theory change in the light of new knowledge. If they do, problems with incommensurability may arise. See also reference, incommensurability, progress, comparisons. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
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Lewis, David   Books on Amazon	Meaning Change	IV 94 Change of concept/change of meaning/meaning/Theory/change of theory/Lewis: Thesis: we should say that the theoretical terms (TT) maintain the meaning they had at their first introduction. --- IV 95 This only works if we allow the theoretical terms to designate the components of the very next realization of T, of T itself - because after a correction of T, no matter how small, we will believe that the original version of T is unrealized -" because meaning is not in the mind, we need to consider the introduction - "therefore the historian of science knows more about the importance of electron than as the physicist". _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	LW I D. Lewis Die Identität von Körper und Geist Frankfurt 1989 LW II D. Lewis Konventionen Berlin 1975 LW IV D. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd I New York Oxford 1983 LW V D. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd II New York Oxford 1986 LwCl I Cl. I. Lewis Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) 1991

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