R. Barash

The Semantic Finitism of Scientific Concepts as the Basis for the Semantics of the Concept of Science

The authors examine the foundations of the “Strong Program” (SP) in the sociology of knowledge, developed by David Bloor, and demonstrate that its four principles (causality, impartiality, symmetry, reflexivity) do not constitute its exclusive basis, since all of them, either explicitly or implicitly, had already appea...