Conceptual Learning and Local Incommensurability: A Dynamic Logic Approach

Abstract In recent decades, the logical study of rational belief dynamics has played an increasingly important role in philosophy. However, concepts such as conceptual learning received comparatively little attention within this debate. This is problematic insofar occurrence change (especially sciences) been influential argument against a merely analysis beliefs. Especially Kuhn’s ideas about incommensurability, i.e., untranslatability, succeeding theories seem to stand way reconstruction. paper investigates model-changing operations similar revision and relates it notion incommensurability. I consider several versions discuss their influences on expressive power, translatability potential arising The concludes with discussion animal taxonomy Aristotle’s Linnaeus’s work.