The Relation between Incommensurability and Relativism

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Incommensurability is one of the main concepts in contemporary pluralistic approaches that has played a central role in developing and establishing relativism in both epistemology and ontology. In this paper I will first examine the place and function of this notion in contemporary philosophy and then, focusing on Thomas Kuhn’s incommensurability of plural paradigms throughout the history of science, I will discuss historical and logical arguments for this view and its relativistic scope. In final assessment, I take issue with the anti-realistic presupposition of this view and I will argue that with incommensurability, rationality and critical dialogues will be impossible.

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