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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.
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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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Martin Heidegger on Translation - Dictionary of Arguments

Figal I 57
Translation/Figal: Heidegger's translations of the Greek philosophers are notorious. They are always in this way so that they suit his intentions. Heidegger himself calls his translations "ÜBERHELLEN."
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Cardorff II 29
Language/Translation/Heidegger/Cardorff: Heidegger is deliberately vague.
Cf. >Ancient philosophy
, >Aristotle, >Plato, >Parmenides, >Democritus, >Protagoras, >Eleatics, >Epicurus, >Stoicism, >Sophists.
Cf. >Indefiniteness of Translation, >Translation/Quine.

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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.

Hei III
Martin Heidegger
Sein und Zeit Tübingen 1993

Figal I
Günter Figal
Martin Heidegger zur Einführung Hamburg 2016

Hei II
Peter Cardorff
Martin Heidegger Frankfurt/M. 1991


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