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Quote: the notion of truth as applied to language is deeply interwined with translation; it is nonsensical to say that a conceptual scheme is largely true but not translatable

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private language argument for skepticism about meaning
Topic:
what is truth

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Our attempt to characterize languages or conceptual schemes … has come down, then, to the simple thought … And the criterion of a conceptual scheme different … useful criterion is just the question how well … The answer is, I think, that we do …   Google-1   Google-2

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