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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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Ruth Millikan on Translation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 78 Translation/Sellars/Millikan: Translation scheme (rubric): ___ (in L) means ... Problem: this should not be confused with other forms of meaning. This is about "having the same use". Cf. >Use theory, >Meaning/Millikan. Stabilization function/Millikan: we can put the stabilization function here for "use". >Terminology/Millikan. Foreign language/Millikan: we can eliminate "(in L)": the word to be translated names its own family (reproductively established family). As an element of a family, it is, of course, in a particular language. I 79 Stabilization function: what role does it play in the scheme? Mention/Use/Sellars: E.g. "and" means "and": the German "and" is mentioned, the English "and" is used. But it is not a question of a rigid comparison of mention and use. Focussed stabilization function/Millikan: e.g. "x means y": the focused stabilization function is to make the listener use x in accordance with its stabilization function. He usually does this by presenting a token of the family "y", whose stabilization function the listener already knows. This enables the listener to adopt the same attitude to the family "x"._____________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. |
Millikan I R. G. Millikan Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism Cambridge 1987 Millikan II Ruth Millikan "Varieties of Purposive Behavior", in: Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals, R. W. Mitchell, N. S. Thomspon and H. L. Miles (Eds.) Albany 1997, pp. 189-1967 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 |
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