Incommensurability and communication: to the communicative turn in the philosophy of science

Abstract

The self-sustaining nature of the confirmation of scientific paradigms by Thomas Kuhn ruled out an appeal to the external paradigm criteria of scientific success and scientific progress. This circumstance was designated by the concept of incommensurability. In this article, we have shown that this concept, especially in the semantic aspect, emphasizes mainly the object dimension of communication. To the thesis about the incommensurability of the meanings of scientific concepts in competing paradigms, we oppose the idea of ​​a three-dimensional space of communicative dimensions. We supplement the objective dimension of communication, within which the environmental evolutionary selection of the best knowledge is carried out, with equal social and temporal horizons. The certainty of the meanings of communication in the indicated dimensions makes it possible to overcome scientific language barriers and, as a result, the progress of science.