Semantics and Conceptual Change

The discussion of conceptual change that has taken place over the last two decades is peculiar in an important respect: meaning and change of meaning loom large in these discussions, yet no consideration seems to have been given to what linguistics says on these topics. It is almost perverse that in discussions of science carried out by philosophers of science, in which highly controversial claims concerning science turn on assumptions about meaning, there is no attempt to use ideas from the science that studies meaning.1 In ignoring linguistics, these discussions restrict themselves to an overly narrow range of positions on conceptual change in science. In the present paper, I will show that linguistics has a significant contribution to make in extending this range of positions. I will show that there are ideas in linguistics that lead to a new position on con

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