Combining Texts

Ideas for 'On Motion', 'Psychophysical and theoretical identifications' and 'The Blue and Brown Notebooks'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

1 idea

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6318	The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]
	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.
	From: report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (The Blue and Brown Notebooks [1936], II.§16 n) by Willard Quine - Word and Object II.§16 n
	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.