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Everyday Language and Technical Terminology: Reflective Abstractions in the Long-term History of Spatial Terms

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Schemmel,  Matthias
Department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Schemmel, M. (2019). Everyday Language and Technical Terminology: Reflective Abstractions in the Long-term History of Spatial Terms. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-4DD7-5
Abstract
This paper discusses the origin of technical terminology in everyday language by outlining stages in a long-term history of technical terminology marked by increasing degrees of reflexivity. It uses the examples of spatial terminology in an ancient Chinese theoretical text, in Newtonian mechanics, and in relativity theory, and attempts to explain the increasing distance of the meanings of technical terms from their everyday counterparts by relating it to historical processes of knowledge integration.