The indeterminacy of translation is a thesis propounded by 20th-century American analytic philosopher W. V. Quine. The classic statement of this thesis...

debate in legal theory Underdeterminacy (law) Indeterminacy of translation Referential indeterminacy Indeterminacy (philosophy) Indeterminism, the belief that...

linguist attempting to translate an unknown language in order to outline his thesis. His thesis, the indeterminacy of translation, notes that there are...

He challenges the translation or referential scrutability of whole sentences, proposing his idea of the indeterminacy of translation. In order to accomplish...

of Empiricism" on the analytic–synthetic distinction. The thought experiment of radical translation and the accompanying notion of indeterminacy of translation...

Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of...

theory of the indeterminacy of translation, and specifically to prove the point of inscrutability of reference. Using this concept of radical translation, Quine...

positions and introduced Quine's famous indeterminacy of translation thesis, advocating a behaviorist theory of meaning. Quine grew up in Akron, Ohio,...

Holophrastic indeterminacy, or indeterminacy of sentence translation, is one of two kinds of indeterminacy of translation to appear in the writings of philosopher...

Legal translation is the translation of language used in legal settings and for legal purposes. Legal translation may also imply that it is a specific...