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W.V. Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of translation is the theory which launched a thousand doctorates. During the 1970s it sometimes seemed to be as firmly entrenched a dogma among North American philosophers as the existence of God was among medieval theologians. Although now subject to much more by way of critical appraisal, Quine’s work is still, rightly, at the forefront of contemporar...
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terms, but merely an explanation of my reaction to those objections [to the use of such terms] and of my impression that no sufficiently compelling reasons for them were given. Nevertheless, I thought that these objections deserved to be given careful and serious attention. This I did in my article “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”.39 Notice that Carnap denied that the objections his empiri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0029-4527
DOI: 10.1305/ndjfl/1093894219