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DETERMINED
Robert Kirk
CLARENDONPRESSOXFORD
Contents
ABBREVIATIONSXVli
INTRODUCTIONxix
Part I What is the Indeterminacy Doctrine?
1 CLEARING THE GROUND 3
1 1 Trivializing interpretations 3
1 2 Why bilinguals won t help 8
1 3 Why looking for the use won t help 8
1 4 The implied non-factuality of propositional attitudes g
1 5 Domestic indeterminacy 11
1 6 Why the utility of language is no objection 13
1 7 Quine s naturalism 15
1 8 Why confronting the facts won t work 16
1 9 The museum myth and alternative approaches to objectivity in
semantics 17
11o The indeterminacy thesis and the Brentano-Chisholm thesis 20
1 11 Quine and Wittgenstein 22
1 12 Quinean indeterminacy, realism, and anti-realism 28
1 13 The indeterminacy thesis and some current approaches to semantics 30
1 14 Translation manuals 32
2 A CASE FOR INDETERMINACY 37
2 1 Radical translation and stimulus meaning 37
2 2 Stimulus synonymy and synonymy 39
2 3 Analytical hypotheses 41
2 4 Conditions (i)-(4) and (i )-(3) 42
2 5 Three important theses 43
2 6 Inadequacy of two arguments 44
2 7 The alleged uncheckability of analytical hypotheses 46
xii Contents
3 THE MAIN THESIS 48
3 1 What evidence must translation manuals fit? 48
3 2 Fitting the evidence (I): the constraints approach 52
3 3 Fitting the evidence (II): linguists as litmus paper 56
3 4 Is finite explicability just a practical constraint? 58
3 5 Rationality and prejudice 59
3 6 Fitting the evidence (III): final version 61
3 7 Empirical adequacy and holism 66
3 8 Translation and truth values 67
3 9 Translating observation sentences 69
3 10 Exact translation 72
3 11 Incompatibility between translation manuals 74
3 12 The relativistic thesis 75
3 13 The domestic thesis 76
3 14 Domestic indeterminacy and individual interpretation 77
Part II The Case for Quine s Doctrine
4 HOLISM AND INEXTRICABILITY 81
4 1 The Duhem-Quine thesis and the indeterminacy thesis 81
4 2 The argument in Epistemology Naturalized 82
4 3 Inextricability 84
4 4 Reasons for inextricability (I): the Duhem-Quine thesis 86
4 5 Reasons for inextricability (II): Quine s reductionist assumption 88
4 6 Reasons for inextricability (III): Change of meaning or change of
theory? 90
4 7 Generalizing from the case of theoretical expressions 91
4 8 Dog theory and quark theory 92
4 9 Relevance of the Kripke-Putnam theory of natural-kind words 93
4 10 Dummett s arguments against inextricability 94
4 11 An objection to the arguments for the inextricability thesis 98
4 12 The inextricability thesis does not support the indeterminacy thesis 1 o 1
5 PRESSING FROM BELOW 106
5 1 Inscrutability 106
Contents xiii
5 2 The Japanese example 107
5 3 Quine s arguments for strong inscrutability 111
5 4 Why Quine s arguments fall short 114
5 5 The permutation theorem 116
5 6 Does the permutation theorem support Quine s theses? 118
5 7 Reference and causation 120
5 8 Ontological relativity 127
5 9 Does strong inscrutability entail indeterminacy of sentence
translation? 131
6 PRESSING FROM ABOVE 133
6 1 Underdetermination of theory 133
6 2 Indeterminacy of translation not a special case of the underdeter
mination of theory 135
6 3 Quine s reasons 139
64A bad reason for rejecting Quine s reasons 141
6 5 The argument must not assume that analytical hypotheses generate
indeterminacy of translation 143
6 6 The non sequitur 144
6 7 Evidence for theories and for the acceptance of theories 147
6 8 Quine s suggestions about identity of theories 148
6 9 Conclusion 152
7 SYNTAX 153
7 1 Quinean indeterminacy and syntax 154
7 2 Psychological reality 156
7 3 Sentences and languages 158
7 4 Is there an argument from parsing ? 163
7 5 Conclusions 165
8 ALLEGED INSTANCES 166
8 1 Four clear non-instances 166
8 2 The transposed spectrum etc 170
8 3 Massey s three alleged rivals to homophonic translation 171
8 4 Empirical inadequacy of the dualizing and contradictory manuals 173
8 5 Empirical inadequacy of the Cretan manual 175
XIV Contents
8 6 Duality in projective geometry 178
8 7 Conclusion 183
Part III The Case Against Quine s Docrine
9 UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS 187
9 1 The triangle argument 187
9 2 The argument from truth conditions 188
9 3 The argument from structure 188
9 4 The argument from constraints 190
9 5 Dummett s objections 195
9 6 The argument from Quine s philosophy of science 198
9 7 The argument from optimism about semantics 201
9 8 The argument from holism 202
9 9 Conclusion 204
10 GENERAL AND DOMESTIC THESES RELATED 205
10 1 Is the domestic thesis just a special case of the general thesis? 205
10 2 Main argument 206
10 3 Failures of translatability 209
10 4 Is there an alternative? 211
10 5 Conceptual differences and translatability 212
10 6 Translatability and form of life 213
11 DOMESTIC DETERMINACY 215
11 1 What domestic indeterminacy would involve 215
11 2 Strategy 217
11 3 Steps in language acquisition 218
11 4 A determinately translatable base 220
11 5 Carrying determinacy upwards (I): a special class of cases 224
11 6 Carrying determinacy upwards (II): generalizing 227
11 7 Objections and replies 228
11 8 Conclusion 236
Contents xv
Part IV Implications
12QUINEANISMWITHOUTINDETERMINACY 239
12 1 Jettisoning the indeterminacy doctrine 239
12 2 Quine s rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction 240
12 3 Synonymy and the Fregean definition of analyticity 241
12 4 Synonymy, inextricability, and truth by meaning 242
12 5 Translating logic 243
12 6 Synonymy 245
12 7 Can synonymy be defined? 246
12 8 Synonymy and explanation 247
12 9 Conclusion 250
APPENDIXES
A Versions and Perversions of the Indeterminacy Doctrine 251
B Language and Dispositions 253
BIBLIOGRAPHY259
INDEX 267
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