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    Revisiting Wittgenstein on Family Resemblance and Colour.Lin Ma & Jaap Brakel - 2016 - Philosophical Investigations 39 (2):254-280.
    We argue that all general concepts are family resemblance concepts. These include concepts introduced by ostension, such as colour. Concepts of colour and of each of the specific colours are family resemblance concepts because similarities concerning an open-ended range of colour or of appearance features crop up and disappear. After discussing the notion of “same colour” and Wittgenstein's use of the phrase “our colours”, we suggest family resemblance concepts in one tradition can often be extended to family resemblance concepts in (...)
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    A Theory of Interpretation for Comparative and Chinese Philosophy.Jaap Brakel & Lin Ma - 2016 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15 (4):575-589.
    Why should interpretation of conceptual schemes and practices across traditions work at all? In this paper we present the following necessary conditions of possibility for interpretation in comparative and Chinese philosophy: the interpreter must presuppose that there are mutually recognizable human practices; the interpreter must presuppose that “the other” is, on the whole, sincere, consistent, and right; the interpreter must be committed to certain epistemic virtues. Some of these necessary conditions are consistent with the fact that interpretation is not thwarted (...)
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    Is Scientific Realism an Empirical Hypothesis?Igor Douven & Jaap Brakel - 1995 - Dialectica 49 (1):3-14.
    SummaryScientific realists like Boyd, Newton‐Smith and Putnam have argued that scientific realism is an empirical hypothesis; hence testable and falsifiable ‐future scientists could come to the insight that, after all, genes, electrons and most or all of the other entities posited by contemporary science cannot be said to exist. We show that such a naturalistic view of scientific realism is incompatible with a causal theory of reference and we suggest that there is currently no theory of reference that can deal (...)
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    Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color: Anthropological and Historiographic Perspectives.Debi Roberson, Ian Davies, Jules Davidoff, Arnold Henselmans, Don Dedrick, Alan Costall, Angus Gellatly, Paul Whittle, Patrick Heelan, Rainer Mausfeld, Jaap van Brakel, Thomas Johansen, Hans Kraml, Joseph Wachelder, Friedrich Steinle & Ton Derksen - 2002 - Upa.
    Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color is the outcome of a workshop, held in Leuven, Belgium, in May 2000.
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    On the Interpreter’s Choices: Making Hermeneutic Relativity Explicit.Jaap Brakel & Lin Ma - 2018 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17 (4):453-478.
    In this essay, we explore the various aspects of hermeneutic relativity that have rarely been explicitly discussed. Our notion of “hermeneutic relativity” can be seen as an extension, with significant revisions, of Gadamer’s notion of Vorurteil. It refers to various choices and constraints of the interpreter, including beliefs concerning the best way of doing philosophy, what criteria are to be used to evaluate competing interpretations, and so on. The interpreter cannot completely eliminate the guidance and constraint originating from his/her “background.” (...)
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  6. Edited volumes-theories, technologies, instrumentalities of color. Anthropological and historiographic perspectives.Barbara Saunders & Jaap van Brakel - 2002 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 24 (2):347.
     
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