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Polysemy

A lexical conception of polysemy was developed by B. T. S. Atkins, in the form of lexical implication rules.

:# consequently, there are several different entities called moles (see the Mole disambiguation page).


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Paradigm

Mattei Dogan, a French sociologist, in his article "Paradigms in the Social Sciences," develops Kuhn's original thesis that there are no paradigms at all in the social sciences since the concepts are polysemic, the deliberate mutual ignorance between scholars and the proliferation of schools in these disciplines.


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