Meaning of phlogistonic | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to phlogiston or the theory of phlogiston.

not-comparable

Examples

“The point⟳ which Kuhn brings out particularly in his consideration of attempts to translate⟳ between phlogistonic and 'modern' chemistry is this: that not even long 'paraphrases' or complicated multiple uses of symbols can be usefully said to 'capture⟳', to translate⟳, phlogistonic chemistry: 'We have⟳ not only to say⟳ that phlogiston sometimes referred to hydrogen and sometimes to absorption of oxygen, but we have⟳ to convey the whole ontology of phlogiston in order⟳ to make⟳ plausible why it was taken to be a single natural kind.'”

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