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Commensurability and the Alien Mind
Common Knowledge 25 (1-3):11-12 (2019)
Abstract
In this brief essay Quine clarifies and limits his sometimes misconstrued and misapplied thesis of the “indeterminacy of translation.” It does not imply, as some have claimed, that translation is impossible or arbitrary. Nor does it say that arguments from the indeterminacy of translation can be extended properly to a supposed incommensurability of scientific theories.Links
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Quine's argument “from above”.Rogério P. Severo & Guilherme Gräf Schüler - 2021 - European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2):601-607.
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