L'océan de la vérité? Conceptual schemes and the length of translation

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I respond to Wes Sharrock and Rupert Read’s argument that we should not count very long supposed translations of very short sentences as translations. I cannot see that a length mismatch alone should disqualify a sentence from counting as a translation.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme.Donald Davidson - 2011 - In Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin (eds.), The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce Through the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 286-298.
Kuhn: philosopher of scientific revolutions.W. W. Sharrock - 2002 - Malden, MA: Polity. Edited by Rupert J. Read.

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