期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2001
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：31-50
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：Chemical symbolism provides the linguistic representations for ex-perimental research. It is based on an empirical set of formal (syntactic) rules that allows operations on formulas and reaction equations. The semantic in-terpretation of formulas and reaction equations links these operations to ex-perimental analysis and synthesis. These syntactic and semantic aspects of chemical symbolism guide as well as limit chemical research. A better under-standing of these aspects of chemical language allows chemists to rationalize novel approaches to chemical research (e.g. combinatorial chemistry) and pos-sibly exploit the vast area of 'surprise discoveries
