Radical interpretation and indeterminacy.
Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195145062 9780195145069 9780199833436 0199833435 |