Translating the World Science and Language

Translating the World begins by showing how discursive and writing strategies contribute to the ontology and epistemology of science, which includes understanding the special ways in which science uses language, whether it is natural language, mathematics or other semiotic systems.

Preface

vii

Introduction

xi

PART ONE: WRITING THEORIES

Writing Science

3

(20)

Form and Scientific Discourse

8

(3)

Written Form and Similarity

11

(5)

Language and Ontology

16

(3)

Simulacrum and Writing as Image

19

(4)

The Writing of Mathematics

23

(17)

Calculation as Writing

26

(9)

Alphabetization in Mathematics

35

(5)

The Text of Science

40

(11)

Text of the World

40

(2)

Scientific Textuality

42

(9)

PART TWO: MAKING MEANING

Theories and Meaning

51

(37)

Meaning in Scientific Texts

52

(4)

Multisemiotic Character of the Scientific Text

56

(4)

Figures and Diagrams

60

(3)

Geometrization of Figures

63

(3)

Geometry to Algebra

66

(5)

Translatability of Theories

71

(6)

Metaphors in Science and Mathematics

77

(11)

Hermeneutics and Scientific Discourse

88

(21)

Topology of the Hermeneutic Circle

95

(3)

Hermeneutics of Mathematics

98

(11)

Making Meaning of Operators

99

(5)

= as the Transcendental Signified

104

(5)

Making Meaning of the World

109

(11)

Original/Real

109

(2)

Anoriginal and Mimesis

111

(3)

Approximation

114

(6)

PART THREE: SCIENCE, LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION

Literature, Translation and Science

120

(10)

Philosophy, Translation and Science

130

(7)

Mathematics, Language and Translation

137

(14)

Notes

151

(4)

Reference

155

(8)

Index

163

(4)

Biographical Sketch

167

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