Radical interpretation and indeterminacy
Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2002, 2002
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 253 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780199833436 |