id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lgcq3kiesvhxpbafpn4ljwgb4i Alexander Bird Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism* 2003 30 .pdf application/pdf 13992 784 50 In this paper I draw a connection between Kuhn and the empiricist legacy, specifically between his thesis of incommensurability, in particular in its later taxonomic form, and van Kuhn and van Fraassen do not differ as much as might be thought as regards the claim that shall argue that if this is true, we should expect the empirically indistinguishable competing theories to differ in their taxonomies. given such pair that the two theories are taxonomically incommensurable; that is they have differing taxonomies that cannot be translated Fraassen is right, that two theories may be distinct but empirically equivalent, then they will exhibit the greatest degree of difference—taxonomic theories will be taxonomically different with a case of particular scientific To show, for empirically equivalent theories, that taxonomic difference To show, for empirically equivalent theories, that taxonomic difference The theories that must exist to make constructive empiricism true (distinct but non-trivially empirically equivalent ./cache/work_lgcq3kiesvhxpbafpn4ljwgb4i.pdf ./txt/work_lgcq3kiesvhxpbafpn4ljwgb4i.txt