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Method and Language
Author(s): Joseph Grünfeld (Author)
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date: 31 Dec. 1982
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 9060321103
- ISBN-13: 9789060321102
Book Description
This monograph explores the relationship between method and language. The notion of method is inherent in everything we can claim to understand. The language conventions which make a question meaningful cannot be challenged at the same time the problem is posed. Problems exist only relatively to accepted ways of thinking and doing; verification or falsification can take place only when we agree what hypotheses are in question. Our ability to be rational and critical ― that is, to apply logic to our beliefs ― depends on the kinds of distinctions we are able to make in our language.
