
HoP 111 - Papa Don't Teach - Augustine on Language
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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How to Teach About Signs Using Words
A philosopher named Quine raised a puzzle to suggest that all translation is indeterminate. Augustine actually doesn't spend too much time worrying about this problem of whether we can use things to learn the meanings of signs, he says. If you want to know that giraffes are tall, just hearing me utter these words is not enough,. You must go do some empirical investigation and see if they are tall.
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