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The Indeterminacy of Translation and Radical Interpretation
The indeterminacy of translation is the thesis that translation, meaning, and reference are all indeterminate: there are always alternative translations of a sentence and a term, and nothing objective in the world can decide which translation is the right one. This is a skeptical conclusion because what it really implies is that there is no ...
PDF Interpreting and Clarifying Quine'S Indeterminacy Thesis Heath Allen
The primary aim of this thesis is to provide an interpretation of Quine's indeterminacy thesis, primarily as it is presented in Word & Object (1960). This interpretation will be based on a close. reading of the first two chapters of Word & Object, with occasional supplementation from Quine's. other works.
Law's Determinability: Indeterminacy, Interpretative Authority, and the
2.2 Koskenniemi and the Radical Indeterminacy Thesis. On the international plane, it is of course Martti Koskenniemi who, with the publication of From Apology to Utopia, Footnote 21 triggered a renewed debate on indeterminacy and the subjectivity of interpretation. The thrust of his well-known argument is to refute international law's claim ...
PDF Linguistic Indeterminacy
Legal theorists talk of 'legal indeterminacy' when a legal right answer.'. I will use 'linguistic indeterminacy' to refer meaning of linguistic expressions that could lead to legal cerning the application of the language in which laws are theorists make claims of practical indeterminacy and claims determinacy.
Meaning, Grammar, and Indeterminacy
Meaning, Grammar, and Indeterminacy*. by Stephen Neale**. Summary It is a mistake to think that Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation reduces to the. claim that theories are under-determined by evidence. The theory of meaning is subject to an. indeterminacy that is qualitatively different from the under-determination of scientific ...
Behaviourism, Mentalism, and Quine's Indeterminacy Thesis
Quine gives the clearest statement of what philosophical view he means. to oppose the indeterminacy thesis to in his essay 'Ontological Relativity'.9. He characterizes this view as 'uncritical semantics', and says that it is. representative of the main philosophical tradition as well as of common sense views. (OR p.
Linguistic Indeterminacy
Abstract. This chapter introduces the notion of indeterminacy: the law is indeterminate when there is no single right answer to a question of law, or to a question of the application of the law to the facts of a case. It rejects the incoherent notion that the application of language is radically indeterminate, stressing the point that the ...
Indeterminacy of Translation
This chapter offers some initial reflections on the content and implications of the indeterminacy thesis, and of the presuppositions that Quine makes in treating it as a stepping-stone to semantic irrealism. It distinguishes Quine's two principal arguments for the thesis: the famous 'gavagai' argument of Word and Object, and the argument from ...
The ends and means of translation: critical reflections on Quine's
Central to Quine's discussion of the situation of the translator is his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation, according to which the totality of actual and potential speech behavior of a linguistic community - which he takes to be the only ontological ground that exists for claims of meaning - does not suffice to determine a single ...
Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the ...
The first part of this paper discusses Quine's views on underdetermination of theory by evidence, and the indeterminacy of translation, or meaning, in relation to certain physical theories. The underdetermination thesis says different theories can be supported by the same evidence, and the indeterminacy thesis says the same component of a theory that is underdetermined by evidence is also ...
PDF H.L.A. Hart's "The Concept of Law" and the Moderate Indeterminacy
indeterminacy thesis as failing to embody the virtues of a center in between the vices of the ... In that sense, law may be affected by linguistic--and semantic-- indeterminacy and appear to have systemic indeterminacy but not necessarily if there is a way of reaching a (single) answer transcending the linguistic--and semantic-- indeterminacy ...
(PDF) Indeterminacy and underdetermination: Are quine's two theses
Willard V. O. Quine, with his thesis of indeterminacy of translation, propose that there is no uniquely correct translation of one set of sentences into another, and that different translations of the same source material could be equally correct instances of translation where the differences between translations are not merely stylistic or connotational differences but are also related to ...
Indeterminacy of Meaning
Abstract. In this paper we shall critically examine the two main arguments that W. V. Quine has presented in various forms to support his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation. If somebody objects that we have, from the very beginning, misrepresented the thesis by calling it "indeterminacy of meaning" whereas Quine names it ...
Indeterminacy of translation
The indeterminacy of translation is a thesis propounded by 20th-century American analytic philosopher W. V. Quine.The classic statement of this thesis can be found in his 1960 book Word and Object, which gathered together and refined much of Quine's previous work on subjects other than formal logic and set theory. The indeterminacy of translation is also discussed at length in his Ontological ...
Indeterminacy and interpretation
This paper contains a discussion of Quine's thesis of indeterminacy of translation within the more general thesis that using and understanding a language are to be conceived of as a creative and interpretative‐constructional activity. Indeterminacy is considered to be ineliminable. Three scenarios are distinguished concerning, first, the reasons for indeterminacy, second, the kinds of ...
Indeterminacy of Translation
78) Indeterminacy of translation is merely a corollary of the main thesis, albeit one which is pedagogically useful. The radical translation thought experiment helps one to bracket mentalistic assumptions and focus on the purely behavioural data which are available to linguist and language learner alike.
On the Forms and Thorns of Linguistic Indeterminacy in Chinese Law
The study of linguistic indeterminacy in Chinese has implications for the study of forensic linguistics, and Chinese studies in general. Strongest collocates of qita ( 其他 'other') in Chinese laws
Linguistic underdeterminacy: A view from speech act theory
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to reformulate the Linguistic Underdeterminacy Thesis by making use of Austin's theory of speech acts. Viewed from the post-Gricean perspective, linguistic underdeterminacy consists in there being a gap between the encoded meaning of a sentence uttered by a speaker and the proposition that she communicates.
Perimeters of possibility: legal imagination and structural
While there have been different attempts of responding to the foundational challenge, Footnote 5 the recourse to linguistic indeterminacy and the limits of possibility of international law within such a framework received much ... 14 The open-endedness of the indeterminacy thesis cannot account for one-sided distributional effects international ...
Indeterminacy and the Data of Introspection
In his article "Indeterminacy. Empiricism, and the First Person",l John Searle attempts to show that W.V. Quine's indeterminacy thesis provides a reductio ad absurdum of linguistic behaviorism. Linguistic behaviorism understands linguistic acts in terms of stimulus situations which create dispositions to verbal behavior.
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Quine's Indeterminacy of Translation Thesis Xiang Xu College of Foreign Language, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China ... However, it is obvious that the responses of different people towards the same linguistic expression may differ greatly so there are all kinds of understandings, which is the source of ...
Quine's Indeterminacy of Translation Thesis
Xiang Xu. Published 14 May 2010. Linguistics, Philosophy. Journal of Language Teaching and Research. This paper aims to analyze Quine's major theories of Indeterminacy of Meaning and Inscrutability of Reference by their definition and appearance, then comments them in daily communication and practical translation activities. View via Publisher.
Registerial expertise in translation: managing indeterminacy in the
This thesis argues for greater emphasis in translation studies on the linguistic notion of register, specifically in the way that professional experience and training - with their registerial demands - may be a key to semantic decisions forced on a translator by the inevitable vagueries or indeterminacies of establishing a working "equivalence" across languages and cultures, as well as ...
Slurs and Semantic Indeterminacy
The thesis of indeterminacy, besides accounting for the conflict of intuitions concerning the co-presence of descriptive and expressive occurrences of slurs, also provides reasons for regarding the censorial convention as justified, without understanding it as a brute fact, as (Anderson and Lepore 2013)'s version of the no content view sees ...
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The indeterminacy of translation is the thesis that translation, meaning, and reference are all indeterminate: there are always alternative translations of a sentence and a term, and nothing objective in the world can decide which translation is the right one. This is a skeptical conclusion because what it really implies is that there is no ...
The primary aim of this thesis is to provide an interpretation of Quine's indeterminacy thesis, primarily as it is presented in Word & Object (1960). This interpretation will be based on a close. reading of the first two chapters of Word & Object, with occasional supplementation from Quine's. other works.
2.2 Koskenniemi and the Radical Indeterminacy Thesis. On the international plane, it is of course Martti Koskenniemi who, with the publication of From Apology to Utopia, Footnote 21 triggered a renewed debate on indeterminacy and the subjectivity of interpretation. The thrust of his well-known argument is to refute international law's claim ...
Legal theorists talk of 'legal indeterminacy' when a legal right answer.'. I will use 'linguistic indeterminacy' to refer meaning of linguistic expressions that could lead to legal cerning the application of the language in which laws are theorists make claims of practical indeterminacy and claims determinacy.
Meaning, Grammar, and Indeterminacy*. by Stephen Neale**. Summary It is a mistake to think that Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation reduces to the. claim that theories are under-determined by evidence. The theory of meaning is subject to an. indeterminacy that is qualitatively different from the under-determination of scientific ...
Quine gives the clearest statement of what philosophical view he means. to oppose the indeterminacy thesis to in his essay 'Ontological Relativity'.9. He characterizes this view as 'uncritical semantics', and says that it is. representative of the main philosophical tradition as well as of common sense views. (OR p.
Abstract. This chapter introduces the notion of indeterminacy: the law is indeterminate when there is no single right answer to a question of law, or to a question of the application of the law to the facts of a case. It rejects the incoherent notion that the application of language is radically indeterminate, stressing the point that the ...
This chapter offers some initial reflections on the content and implications of the indeterminacy thesis, and of the presuppositions that Quine makes in treating it as a stepping-stone to semantic irrealism. It distinguishes Quine's two principal arguments for the thesis: the famous 'gavagai' argument of Word and Object, and the argument from ...
Central to Quine's discussion of the situation of the translator is his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation, according to which the totality of actual and potential speech behavior of a linguistic community - which he takes to be the only ontological ground that exists for claims of meaning - does not suffice to determine a single ...
The first part of this paper discusses Quine's views on underdetermination of theory by evidence, and the indeterminacy of translation, or meaning, in relation to certain physical theories. The underdetermination thesis says different theories can be supported by the same evidence, and the indeterminacy thesis says the same component of a theory that is underdetermined by evidence is also ...
indeterminacy thesis as failing to embody the virtues of a center in between the vices of the ... In that sense, law may be affected by linguistic--and semantic-- indeterminacy and appear to have systemic indeterminacy but not necessarily if there is a way of reaching a (single) answer transcending the linguistic--and semantic-- indeterminacy ...
Willard V. O. Quine, with his thesis of indeterminacy of translation, propose that there is no uniquely correct translation of one set of sentences into another, and that different translations of the same source material could be equally correct instances of translation where the differences between translations are not merely stylistic or connotational differences but are also related to ...
Abstract. In this paper we shall critically examine the two main arguments that W. V. Quine has presented in various forms to support his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation. If somebody objects that we have, from the very beginning, misrepresented the thesis by calling it "indeterminacy of meaning" whereas Quine names it ...
The indeterminacy of translation is a thesis propounded by 20th-century American analytic philosopher W. V. Quine.The classic statement of this thesis can be found in his 1960 book Word and Object, which gathered together and refined much of Quine's previous work on subjects other than formal logic and set theory. The indeterminacy of translation is also discussed at length in his Ontological ...
This paper contains a discussion of Quine's thesis of indeterminacy of translation within the more general thesis that using and understanding a language are to be conceived of as a creative and interpretative‐constructional activity. Indeterminacy is considered to be ineliminable. Three scenarios are distinguished concerning, first, the reasons for indeterminacy, second, the kinds of ...
78) Indeterminacy of translation is merely a corollary of the main thesis, albeit one which is pedagogically useful. The radical translation thought experiment helps one to bracket mentalistic assumptions and focus on the purely behavioural data which are available to linguist and language learner alike.
The study of linguistic indeterminacy in Chinese has implications for the study of forensic linguistics, and Chinese studies in general. Strongest collocates of qita ( 其他 'other') in Chinese laws
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to reformulate the Linguistic Underdeterminacy Thesis by making use of Austin's theory of speech acts. Viewed from the post-Gricean perspective, linguistic underdeterminacy consists in there being a gap between the encoded meaning of a sentence uttered by a speaker and the proposition that she communicates.
While there have been different attempts of responding to the foundational challenge, Footnote 5 the recourse to linguistic indeterminacy and the limits of possibility of international law within such a framework received much ... 14 The open-endedness of the indeterminacy thesis cannot account for one-sided distributional effects international ...
In his article "Indeterminacy. Empiricism, and the First Person",l John Searle attempts to show that W.V. Quine's indeterminacy thesis provides a reductio ad absurdum of linguistic behaviorism. Linguistic behaviorism understands linguistic acts in terms of stimulus situations which create dispositions to verbal behavior.
Quine's Indeterminacy of Translation Thesis Xiang Xu College of Foreign Language, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China ... However, it is obvious that the responses of different people towards the same linguistic expression may differ greatly so there are all kinds of understandings, which is the source of ...
Xiang Xu. Published 14 May 2010. Linguistics, Philosophy. Journal of Language Teaching and Research. This paper aims to analyze Quine's major theories of Indeterminacy of Meaning and Inscrutability of Reference by their definition and appearance, then comments them in daily communication and practical translation activities. View via Publisher.
This thesis argues for greater emphasis in translation studies on the linguistic notion of register, specifically in the way that professional experience and training - with their registerial demands - may be a key to semantic decisions forced on a translator by the inevitable vagueries or indeterminacies of establishing a working "equivalence" across languages and cultures, as well as ...
The thesis of indeterminacy, besides accounting for the conflict of intuitions concerning the co-presence of descriptive and expressive occurrences of slurs, also provides reasons for regarding the censorial convention as justified, without understanding it as a brute fact, as (Anderson and Lepore 2013)'s version of the no content view sees ...