Chapter I. The Catholics and the Revolution of February

1923 ◽  
pp. 47-70
Keyword(s):  
The Revolution

Book VII. Vendémiaire.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Carlyle
Keyword(s):  
The Revolution

Chapter I. Decadent.* How little did any one suppose that here was the end not of Robespierre only, but of the Revolution System itself! Least of all did the mutinying Committee-men suppose it; who had mutinied with no view whatever except to continue...

Idealism and Incommensurability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lange
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Strong Form ◽  
Neutral Ground ◽  
Gold Standards ◽  
The Revolution

Kuhn famously talks about the scientists after a scientific revolution living in a different ‘world’ from the scientists prior to the revolution. This talk could be understood in lots of different ways, but one way is certainly that the notion of truth is relative to a paradigm—a form of idealism. This chapter lays this out and argues against it by arguing against the strong form of incommensurability on which it relies. In particular, the chapter (i) argues that even in the course of a Kuhnian ‘crisis,’ arguments from neutral ground for or against some candidate paradigms can be mounted, and (ii) argues against Feyerabend’s contention that because the rivals in a ‘crisis’ disagree on the gold standards for reliable observations, there is no non-question-begging way to confirm or to disconfirm those rivals. The chapter draws upon Galilean examples to argue for each of these points.

The Revolution that Failed

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Rittenhouse Green
Keyword(s):  
The Revolution
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