Abstract
This paper aims to demonstrate that a qualitative change in the use of language to codify social practices and technological developments was an essential point in the construction of the so-called scientific revolution. In other words, alongside the social and technological settings developing in the European context from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, the pragmatic-linguistic codifications that emerged in this process were essential for the construction of modern science. The role of language in this process, which is understood from this pragmatic viewpoint, is called here the linguistic thesis on the scientific revolution.
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IntroductionThe European way of life changed profoundly and with exponential implications that subsequently spread throughout the world
Around the seventeenth century, the European way of life changed profoundly and with exponential implications that subsequently spread throughout the world
I assert, that the use of the expression “scientific revolution” does not necessarily advocate Koyré’s thesis about this radical rupture, but is merely a useful “label” or rubric that has become usual and, in different ways, aggregated to this series of social, technological, and epistemological transformations that culminated in the construction of modern science
Summary
The European way of life changed profoundly and with exponential implications that subsequently spread throughout the world. I assert, that the use of the expression “scientific revolution” does not necessarily advocate Koyré’s thesis about this radical rupture, but is merely a useful “label” or rubric that has become usual and, in different ways, aggregated to this series of social, technological, and epistemological transformations that culminated in the construction of modern science Whether this change was an abrupt “revolution”, or a continually prepared “evolution”, is a matter of fact that has represented some “disruption” or “deflection” of the historical process and, as a consequence, created modern science. Science before the mid-twentieth century, the historiography of science began to assimilate the issue of language with the developments of the so-called “linguistic turn” For that purpose, it was especially important the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein, as well as more categorical works that affirmed the relevance of social aspects in the construction of scientific knowledge.. I will develop the linguistic approach to understanding the scientific revolution
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