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Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Two)

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The Indeterminacy of Translation

It's not that it disrupts the web. It's that, let's just say we have a theory, it's comprised of ten sentences. That theory has experiential implications, ak it predicts something. We fit that theory to the data, but we don't fit any of the individual sentences into the data. So that's whole ism, but that's not indeterminacy yet no. Well, he's saying that wholeism implies indeterminacy. Because suppose then we take sentence three and i translate it one way, you translateid another. As long as the outcome of the whole is the same for any given sentence inside of that whole, you can't judge whether

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