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Title	:	“The” Language of Science
Release	:	1992
Genre	:	Science
Author	:	Ilse Nina Bulhof
Publisher	:	BRILL
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ID book	:	iYZyTqSOiOoC

In modern times science has avoided rhetorical and poetical forms. Its hallmarks were brevity and exactitude, with disdain for |non-functional| ornamentation. This book shows that the language of scientists does remain language and that a skillful use of its rhetorical and poetic aspects often determines the |facts| and the transmission of information. The exceptional literary qualities of Darwin's The Origin of Species are taken as a point in case. The importance of language in science has ontological implications: science can no longer be considered an action performed by a speaking subject on a mute object. Does the creative role of language in science mean that human beings |create| the world? The author emphatically rejects a conclusion which would degrade nature to mere malleable material at the mercy of human beings. A hermeneutical model for the relationship between knower and known is suggested: creative interaction between reader and text. The reader's responses actualise a text's meaning; in like manner, scientists give their responses to reality by actualising one of many possibilities. The hermeneutical ontology proposed in this book steers away from the rocks of realism and anti-realism.

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