From Impression to Expression, or Indeterminacy of Translation and Reference

• Authors: Grabarczyk P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyzes notions of indeterminacy of translation and indeterminacy of reference. The author discusses the differences between the two and contrasts them both with the cases of merely verbal differences that can arise when several translators attempt to translate one text. He then sets apart the different mechanisms that generate the two kinds of incongruence. He takes indeterminacy of translation to be the effect of the existence of two concurrent translations of a given expression that are stimulus-synonymous but syntactically different. Because of the close connection between the indeterminacy of translation and the indeterminacy of reference the latter does not occur between people speaking their native language. It is so, because they have internalized their grammatical apparatus without possessing a prior grammatical apparatus to correlate it with .

Keywords

EN

BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF MEANING.; INDETERMINACY OF REFERENCE; INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION; QUINE WILLARD VAN ORMAN

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4(68)
• Pages: 223-232
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Grabarczyk P.

• P. Grabarczyk, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Kopcinskiego 16/18, 90-232 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064111