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Ideas for 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science', 'Speaking of Objects' and 'How to Make our Ideas Clear'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable [Ladyman/Ross on Peirce]

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

1631	You could know the complete behavioural conditions for a foreign language, and still not know their beliefs [Quine]

1632	Translation of our remote past or language could be as problematic as alien languages [Quine]