Abstract Published in 1958, The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance is one the earliest linguistic speculations science fiction genre. Directly inspired Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it describes a complex, engineering experiment set up to transform essentially peaceful nature inhabitants planet Pao, so that they might stand invaders from another planet. It does through creation and implementation three n...

Epistemic possibilities are relative to bodies of information, or perspectives. To claim that something is epistemically possible is typically to claim that it is possible relative one’s own current perspective. We generally do this by using bare, unqualified epistemic possibility (EP) sentences, ones that don’t mention our perspective. The fact that epistemic possibilities are relative to pers...

Feminism is the fire that melts, but does not destroy.

For dropping the incommensurability idea elaborated at time of The Structure Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn dismisses concept “revolution”. involved incomparability theories. In this new environment, revolution is replaced by conceptual reformulation and becomes occasional. linguistic turn in Kuhn’s thought involves changes whose aim to get around accusation relativism that former notion arouses....