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Thomas S. Kuhn: The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science. Edited by Bojana Mladenovic. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2022, xlix + 302 pp., €25,99 (Hardcover), ISBN 9780226822747

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Notes

  1. Normic generalizations “admit exceptions,” as Kuhn says, whereas nomic ones are “exceptionless” (see 220; Kuhn 2000, 230). Their different roles in the learning of kind terms help to see the distinction between natural and artefactual kinds, too.

  2. See also Mladenovic’s final remarks (xlvii).

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I thank Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda and George Reisch for their commentaries and corrections to this review. I am also grateful to Megan Watkins for editing its English.

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Mayoral, J.V. Thomas S. Kuhn: The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science. Edited by Bojana Mladenovic. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2022, xlix + 302 pp., €25,99 (Hardcover), ISBN 9780226822747. J Gen Philos Sci 55, 171–175 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-023-09661-6

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