On What We Know We Don't Know: Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and How Questions Shape Them
On What We Know We Don't Know: Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and How Questions Shape Them
by Sylvain Bromberger
University of Chicago Press, 1992 Cloth: 978-0-226-07539-6 | Paper: 978-0-226-07540-2 Library of Congress Classification B29.B7442 1992 Dewey Decimal Classification 121
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this collection of essays, Bromberger explores the centrality of questions and predicaments they create in scientific research. He discusses the nature of explanation, theory, and the foundations of linguistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1: An Approach to Explanation
2: A Theory about the Theory of Theory and about the Theory of Theories
3: Why-Questions
4: Questions
5: Science and the Forms of Ignorance
6: Rational Ignorance
7: What We Don't Know When We Don't Know Why
8: Types and Tokens in Linguistics
9: The Ontology of Phonology
Sylvain Bromberger, Morris Halle.
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