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18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
Full Idea: The indeterminacy between 'rabbit', 'rabbit stage' and the rest depended only on a correlative indeterminacy of translation of the English apparatus of individuation - pronouns, plurals, identity, numerals and so on. | |
From: Willard Quine (Ontological Relativity [1968], p.35) | |
A reaction: This spells out the problem a little better than in 'Word and Object'. I just don't believe these problems are intractable. Quine is like a child endlessly asking 'why?'. |