caa a22 4500 386365296 CHVBK 20180307111930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300015924 doi S0012217300015924 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300015924 MacIntosh Duncan Dalhousie University Modality, Mechanism and Translational Indeterminacy [Elektronische Daten] [Duncan MacIntosh] How does Quine argue to the indeterminacy of translation? It has always been hard to tell, but one construction goes like this: A fact is determinate only if it is empirically determinable, for empirical evidence under-determines truth about the trans-empirical; theory is underdetermined by data. Therefore, facts about the unobservable, facts of theory, are indeterminate. A fact about the meaning of a person's sentence is only determinate if it is empirically determinable. The meaning of a person's sentence is empirically determinable only if it is empirically determinable under what conditions he assents to it. The meaning of a person's sentence about something unobservable is determinable only if it is determinable what unobservable events are occurring whenever he assents to a sentence supposedly about the unobservable. It is not empirically determinable what is going on in the unobservable realm whenever someone assents to a sentence supposedly about the unobservable. Therefore it is undeterminable what a person's theory sentence means. Therefore what it means is indeterminate. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/3(1989), 391-400 0012-2173 28:3<391 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015924 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015924 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- MacIntosh Duncan Dalhousie University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/3(1989), 391-400 0012-2173 28:3<391 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge