Quantum mechanics, consistency, and the art of rhetoric

The intellectual and cultural reception of quantum mechanics has been rhetorically mediated, accounting in part for the way it meshed or failed to mesh with ideological and cultural assumptions about science in different national settings. At issue is both the matter of political climate and the way expectations of consistency put pressure on discourse. If one takes consistency to be not just a matter of syntax and semantics, but also of the rhetorical management of meaning, then the topos of consistency can play out in a variety of ways, even given a common ideology. Also at issue, in response to Krips, is the relevance of psychoanalytic mechanisms to any account of the pragmatic and epistemological program of the sciences. Peirce's semiotic realism is posed as a theoretical point of purchase for thinking about the ‘real’ in the context of the discourses of science. Keywords: rhetoricrhetoric of sciencequantum mechanicsconsistencyPeircerhetoric of inquiry

Consistency (knowledge bases · Epistemology · Geometry · Linguistics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Mathematics · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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