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- Radical_translation abstract "Radical translation is a term coined by American philosopher W. V. O. Quine to describe the situation in which a linguist is attempting to translate a completely unknown language, which is unrelated to his own, and is therefore forced to rely solely on the observed behavior of its speakers in relation to their environment. This is primarily meant to be a thought experiment, for, as Quine puts it, "radical translation is a near miracle, and it is not going to be done twice in the same language."Quine tells a story (Quine 1960) to illustrate his point, in whichan explorer is trying to puzzle out the meaning of the word "gavagai".He observes that the word is used in the presence of rabbits, butis unable to determine whether it means ‘undetached rabbit part’, or ‘fusion of all rabbits’, or 'temporal stage of a rabbit’, or 'the universal ‘rabbithood’The subject is dealt with in more detail under Indeterminacy of translation.".
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- Radical_translation subject Category:Philosophy_of_language.
- Radical_translation subject Category:Translation.
- Radical_translation subject Category:Willard_Van_Orman_Quine.
- Radical_translation comment "Radical translation is a term coined by American philosopher W. V. O. Quine to describe the situation in which a linguist is attempting to translate a completely unknown language, which is unrelated to his own, and is therefore forced to rely solely on the observed behavior of its speakers in relation to their environment.".
- Radical_translation label "Radical translation".
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