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| Hartry Field - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| Hartry Field (1946), American philosopher. His major works include Science Without Numbers (1980), Realism, Mathematics and Modality (1989), and Truth and the Absence of Fact (2001). His fields of specialization are philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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| Gavagai: fantasy word from a thought experiment of W.V.O. Quine. An expression (or fragment) of a completely foreign language is not unambiguously translatable into a known language, because it is not determined, whereupon the expression of the foreign language relates. Even pointing to an object does not create unambiguity. E.g. only a part or a property of the object can be referred to. See also translation, indeterminacy, translation manual, analytical hypothesis, uncertainty, reference, meaning._____________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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| Brandom, Robert | Gavagai | Brandom | |
| Field, Hartry | Gavagai | Field | |
| Lewis, David K. | Gavagai | Lewis | |
| Peacocke, Christopher | Gavagai | Peacocke | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Gavagai | Quine | |
| Rorty, Richard | Gavagai | Rorty | |
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