The inscrutability or indeterminacy of reference (also referential inscrutability) is a thesis by 20th century analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman...
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Radical translation (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
his theory of the indeterminacy of translation, and specifically to prove the point of inscrutability of reference. Using this concept of radical translation...
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of Reference is a 1974 book by the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands on his earlier concepts about the inscrutability of...
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are (i) inscrutability of reference, and (ii) holophrastic indeterminacy, and (iii) the underdetermination of scientific theory. The last of these, not...
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Analytic philosophy (redirect from Index of analytic philosophy articles)
his theory of the indeterminacy of translation, and specifically to prove the inscrutability of reference. Important also for the revival of metaphysics...
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logical flaw Inscrutability of reference – Philosophical thesis by Willard Van Orman Quine Persuasive definition – Stipulative, biased definition of a term...
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Holophrastic indeterminacy (category Articles lacking reliable references from May 2013)
distinction. Another kind of indeterminacy introduced by Quine is the "inscrutability of reference", which refers to parts of a sentence or individual...
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Scott Soames (category American philosophers of language)
Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 321–370. American philosophy List of American...
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Opaque context (category Philosophy of language)
Fuzzy concept Inscrutability of reference Masked-man fallacy Pure functions Referential transparency Transitivity of identity "Definition of "opaque context"...
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Translation (redirect from Accreditation of translators)
translation Indirect translation Inflected languages Inscrutability of reference International Federation of Translators Internationalization and localization...
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adaptation of logical connectives. This implies there is no matter of fact to which the word refers. Quine calls this the inscrutability of reference. This...
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Natalie Portman (category American people of Austrian-Jewish descent)
style. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter termed it an "incandescent performance" and added that "her Jackie is both inscrutable and naked, broken but...
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Goemon's Great Adventure (category Articles needing additional references from February 2014)
fans "capable of overlooking some of the games' more inscrutable cultural references." Nintendo Power wrote that "the story is a weird mix of sci-fi, Japanese...
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Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life...
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hiding his secret and dealing with supernatural dangers that plague the town of Beacon Hills. He is aided by his best friend, Stiles Stilinski (Dylan O'Brien)...
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own meanings, citing the emoji's "intense and inscrutable emotional lability". Fred Benenson, author of Emoji Dick, has given various reasons for the...
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The Buddha (redirect from The life of the Buddha)
"inscrutable", "hard to fathom", and "not apprehended". A list of other epithets is commonly seen together in canonical texts and depicts some of his...
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first six seasons". However, he commented that it "went awry during the inscrutable sixth season finale". IGN's Dan Iverson wrote, "I loved the X-Files from...
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Civil War (film) (category Films about fictional presidents of the United States)
Lattanzio, Ryan (May 17, 2022). "Alex Garland Knows He's Made the Most Inscrutable Movie of His Career with Men". IndieWire. Archived from the original on June...
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Stochastic parrot (redirect from On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?)
models (LLMs) present dangers such as environmental and financial costs, inscrutability leading to unknown dangerous biases, and potential for deception, and...
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Smile (The Beach Boys album) (redirect from Collapse of Smile)
] any kind of Beach Boys type song." Love later compared Parks' lyrics to the poetry of Lewis Caroll, "clever and subtle" but "inscrutable" for rock music...
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Ganesha (redirect from 16 Names of Ganesh)
the lack of evidence about Ganesha's history before the 5th century as follows: What is inscrutable is the somewhat dramatic appearance of Gaṇeśa on...
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with its image of a sensuous, inscrutable, and wholly spiritual India, has died out in serious scholarship. Well-known foreign accounts of Indian history...
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than impute to him a sprawling inscrutability, a mystery that is merely pathological." He further accused it of being full of "pseudo profundities in which...
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linguistic explanations of their behaviour, which are then directly human-interpretable. Model behaviour can also be explained with reference to training data—for...
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The Illusionist (2006 film) (category Articles needing additional references from August 2017)
Norton's role, which, according to him, "perfectly fits his disturbing inscrutability". Variety wrote that Jessica Biel "is entirely stunning enough to fight...
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Japanese). Retrieved September 30, 2022 – via Twitter. List of Japanese Spy × Family books' references: Volume 1: SPY×FAMILY 1. Shueisha (in Japanese). Shueisha...
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and the Top 30 of the charts in Austria and the Netherlands. The song has attracted significant scorn, both for the inscrutability of its lyrics and the...
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The Sweet Hereafter (film) (category Films based on Pied Piper of Hamelin)
Ontario. The film score had medieval music influences and references to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Although The Sweet Hereafter was not a box office...
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painters of the same period depict Helen on the ramparts of Troy, and focus on her expression: her face is expressionless, blank, inscrutable. In Gustave...
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