%0 Journal Article
%T The intelligibility objection against underdetermination
%A Rog¨¦rio Passos Severo
%J Principia : an International Journal of Epistemology
%D 2012
%I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
%X One of the objections against the thesis of underdetermination of theories by observations is that it is unintelligible. Any two empirically equivalent theories ¡ª so the argument goes¡ªare in principle intertranslatable, hence cannot count as rivals in any non-trivial sense. Against that objection, this paper shows that empirically equivalent theories may contain theoretical sentences that are not intertranslatable. Examples are drawn from a related discussion about incommensurability that shows that theoretical non-intertranslatability is possible.
%K Empirical equivalence
%K underdetermination
%K incommensurability
%K untranslatability.
%U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2012v16n1p121/22775