Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics: Part Three of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy ... Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 11)

by Robert E. Butts, Jaakko Hintikka

I / Problems in the Methodology of Science.- Methodology and Systematic Philosophy.- Identity by Sense in Empirical Sciences.- Towards a General Semantics of Empirical Theories.- II / Identifiability Problems.- Identifiability and the Status of Theoretical Terms.- Definability and Identifiability: Certain Problems and Hypotheses.- On Identifiability in Extended Domains.- Prediction and Identifiability.- III / Foundations of Probability and Induction.- An Argument for Comparative Probability.- On the Truthlikeness of Generalizations.- A Third Dogma of Empiricism.- Causal Thinking in Judgment under Uncertainty.- IV / The Concept of Randomness.- A Survey of the Theory of Random Sequences.- Mises Redux.- V / Foundational Problems in Linguistics.- Foundations of Philosophical Pragmatics.- On Problems of Speech Act Theory.- VI / The Prospects of Transformational Grammar.- Transformations and Categories in Syntax.- Consequence of Speaking.- Formal Properties of Phonological Rules.- Index of Names.

334 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1977