Lewowicz, Lucía (2009) THE PURLOINED REFERENT: LAVOISIER AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PHLOGISTON. [Preprint]
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In this paper, I challenge the long-established view that the term phlogiston fails to refer. After a close examination of the reference of phlogiston during Lavoisier’s Chemical Revolution, I show that it referred throughout to a natural substance, fire matter. I state that Lavoisier eliminated the term but not its referent, which he renamed caloric, and I claim that it is in the historical and cultural context of the Chemical Revolution that the Lavoisier’s intentions can be understood.
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| Keywords: | Phlogiston; Chemical Revolution; Lavoisier; reference; referent. | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > History of Science Case Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Lucía Lewowicz | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Dec 2009 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:19 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 5076 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > History of Science Case Studies |
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| Date: | January 2009 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5076 |
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