Scientific languages and formalisms

pp. 31-47

in: Gilles-Gaston Granger, Formal thought and the sciences of man, Berlin, Springer, 1983

Abstract

If scientific language must not be detached in any way from the general conditions of the exercise of language without taking precautions, it nevertheless constitutes an original and highly differentiated aspect of this exercise. As I insisted above (2.13 and 2.14) it must be viewed as a vehicle of information; on the other hand we should now make clear its resources and special functions, in order to understand better the role and the nature of forms in scientific thought.