Word and Object

Quine, W. V. O. (1960). Word and Object. MIT Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1960

Link

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262670012/word-and-object/

Cited from

communication_media_studies, philosophy

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Deductive Reasoning
  • Distinguishing validity and soundness

    This sourceClassic statement of the indeterminacy of translation: there is no canonical translation from natural language to a single logical form, since multiple incompatible translation manuals are equally adequate. WebSearch confirmed the indeterminacy-of-translation thesis (gavagai).

• Hermeneutic Circle
  • Quine's translation indeterminacy thesis

    This sourceDevelops the indeterminacy of radical translation: incommensurable conceptual schemes admit multiple mutually incompatible translation manuals, formalizing why mapping between frameworks is constitutively underdetermined.

• Ontology

  • This sourceDevelops the indeterminacy of radical translation: incommensurable conceptual schemes admit multiple mutually incompatible translation manuals, formalizing why mapping between frameworks is constitutively underdetermined.

• Translation and Conceptual Bridging
  • It separates two systems (source and target frameworks), names the work required to bridge between them, and identifies what survives the crossing intact, an indeterminacy Quine (1960) treated as fundamental to all radical translation.

    This sourceDevelops the indeterminacy of radical translation: incommensurable conceptual schemes admit multiple mutually incompatible translation manuals, formalizing why mapping between frameworks is constitutively underdetermined.

Domain-specific

• Principle of Charity
  • It does not erase disagreement, excuse contradictions, or require the interpreter to accept a false conclusion.

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