GASTON BACHELARD AND THE QUESTION OF GRAMMATICAL INCOMMENSURABILITY

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.929512516012

• Palavras-chave: Gaston Bachelard; Grammatical incommensurability; Epistemology.

• Keywords: Gaston Bachelard; Grammatical incommensurability; Epistemology.

• Abstract:

  The article presents the question of grammatical incommensurability in Gaston Bachelard's epistemology, exploring the tension between common knowledge and scientific knowledge. Based on the notion of discontinuity of knowledge, it is argued that there is no tacit agreement between these two domains, since their linguistic structures and epistemological presuppositions are radically different. Based on the Bachelardian approach, it is shown that the grammar of scientific knowledge is structured on formal abstractions and methodological rigor, making it sometimes unintelligible to common sense. Grammatical incommensurability is not reduced to a simple difficulty in translating between language registers, but manifests an ontological and cognitive rupture. The article thus discusses the implications of this discontinuity for the construction of knowledge and the relationship between philosophy and science, emphasizing the need to understand the epistemological specificity of each domain without subordinating one to the other.