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Full Idea
Perhaps the doctrine of indeterminacy of translation will have little air of paradox for readers familiar with Wittgenstein's latter-day remarks on meaning.
Gist of Idea
The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein
Source
report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (The Blue and Brown Notebooks [1936], II.§16 n) by Willard Quine - Word and Object II.§16 n
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Word and Object' [MIT 1969], p.77
A Reaction
This may be right, and I am inclined to link the names of Wittgenstein and Quine among those who led philosophy up a relativistic and sceptical cul-de-sac for many years. You can think too hard, you know.
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