Gavagai and TZQQA

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Gavagai and TZQQA
Mark Liberman, Language Log, 2017/02/07
I thought this was a fun post. Quine's thesis on the indeterminacy of translation is that in the case of a radical translation - that is, a translation of a completely unfamiliar language - we don't have sufficient evidence to be certain of the meaning of any specific word - 'gavagai', say - in the other language. More...