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Book Description: Brill. Book Condition: New. The existence of a separation between science and literature has long been taken for granted. This study shows that in science language functions in very much the same way as in literature: it is rhetorical in that it persuades readers to the author's point of view, and it is poetical in that with its metaphors and other figures of speech it shapes the experience of author and reader. The separation between science and literature proves to be untenable. This has important 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.Using Darwin's The Origin of Species as a casepoint, this book shows that the language of scientists does remain language and that a skilful use of its rhetorical and poetic aspects often determines the 'facts' and the transmission of information.'This book greatly enhances our understanding of the central role of Spencer Baird and the Smithsonian in ninetheenth-century science and provides the basis for further research.' Daniel Goldstein, ISIS, 1994.'.Bulhof has prepared a philosophical ground rich enough to yield real fruit.' Robert J. Richards, ISIS, 1994. Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9789004096448

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Book Description: Brill, Netherlands, 1992. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 240 x 160 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The existence of a separation between science and literature has long been taken for granted. This study shows that in science language functions in very much the same way as in literature: it is rhetorical in that it persuades readers to the author's point of view, and it is poetical in that with its metaphors and the figures of speech it shapes the experience of author and reader. The separation between science and literature proves to be untenable. This has important 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 actualize a text's meaning; in like manner, scientists give their response to reality by actualizing one of many possibilities. The hermeneutical ontology proposed in this book steers away from the rocks of realism and anti-realism. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9789004096448

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Book Description: Brill. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, The Language of Science: A Study of the Relationship Between Literature and Science in the Perspective of a Hermeneutical Ontology - with a Case Study of Darwin's "The Origin of Species", Ilse N. Bulhof, The existence of a separation between science and literature has long been taken for granted. This study shows that in science language functions in very much the same way as in literature: it is rhetorical in that it persuades readers to the author's point of view, and it is poetical in that with its metaphors and the figures of speech it shapes the experience of author and reader. The separation between science and literature proves to be untenable. This has important 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 actualize a text's meaning; in like manner, scientists give their response to reality by actualizing one of many possibilities. The hermeneutical ontology proposed in this book steers away from the rocks of realism and anti-realism. Bookseller Inventory # B9789004096448

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Book Description: Brill, Leiden, 1992. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 1625592

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Book Description: Brill Academic Pub, 1992. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 207 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # 9004096442

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