ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes Cross-language communication breakdown is the landmark of incommensurability. Cross-language communication in abnormal discourse is inevitably partial. Most classical cases of incommensurability identified by Thomas Kuhn, P. Feyerabend, and many others are cases of partial communication breakdowns. Communication breakdown in the case of incommensurability, no matter whether it is complete or partial, occurs only in abnormal discourse. It should be distinguished from other kinds of communication breakdowns, especially communication breakdown in normal discourse. The concept of truth-theoretical incompatibility assumes that a sufficient neutral metalanguage can be found to establish a unitary truth theory accepted by both theories. Specifically, the occurrence of a conceptually possible truth-value gap corresponds to a complete communication breakdown while the emergence of an actual truth-value gap correlates with a partial communication breakdown.
