Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication: (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)

Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures that makes full linguistic communication between them attainable. Xinli Wang challenges this assumption by exploring why and how linguistic communication between two conceptually disparate languages, traditions, or cultures is often pr