Radical Translation and Indeterminacy
Quine's field linguist, 'gavagai', and the claim that there is no fact of the matter about translation
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will defineradical translationindeterminacy of translationinscrutability of reference
Assumesanalytic-synthetic distinctionconfirmation holismreference
Related
- Words and the Worldplanned
- Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argumentplanned