Vol. 24 No. 2 (2004)
Artículos y notas

El carácter no universal del lenguaje en las últimas obras de Kuhn

Published 2004-11-01

Keywords

  • Lenguaje universal,
  • Léxico,
  • Intraducibilidad,
  • Referencia,
  • Cambios de mundo
  • Universal Language,
  • Lexicon,
  • Intraducibility;,
  • Reference,
  • World Changes

Abstract

This paper draws attention to one of the theses of the Later Kuhn, which has been ignored: the non-universal character of language. After locating the thesis in the texts and theoretical contexts in which it appears, it is attempted to be clarified in view of some of his later texts. In regard of this, the paper firstly shows, how some of the philosophical proposals attributed to the Early Kuhn must be modified in order to understand it. Secondly, a very brief account for certain philosophical innovations in the Later Kuhn is attempted to be given. In addition, some of Kuhn’s new theses are compared with his most likely, even if never explicit, interlocutors, namely N. Chomsky and J. Fodor.