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| Translation, philosophy: philosophically interesting in the transmission of a text into another language is its indeterminateness - the fundamental impossibility of choosing between available competing versions, if the source language is too little known. See also Gavagai, idiolect, uncertainty of translation, indeterminacy, translation manual, ostension, pointing._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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W. Poundstone on Translation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 327 Translation/Twin Earth/PoundstoneVsPutnam Version: e.g. assume there is a text of Schiller: "The Maid of Orleans". - But a translation would be Urfaust. - Then we could have a slogan: "meanings are not in the book". >Meaning/Putnam, >Meanings ain't in the head, >Twin Earth. Vs: such a translation would not be possible because the word frequencies would give the same pattern in each translation. Cf. >Theorem of Löwenheim. Solution: Algorithm completely modified the text. N.B.: there is no evidence that the Voynich manuscript is not a translation of a known text. >Proofs, >Provability._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Poundstone I William Poundstone Labyrinths of Reason, NY, 1988 German Edition: Im Labyrinth des Denkens Hamburg 1995 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27