Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy

By: Timothy McCarthy

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Hardcover | 1 January 2003

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McCarthy develops a theory of Radical Interpertation - The project of characterizing from scratch the language and attituteds of an agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first descrided in the writings of Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpertive principles, properly applied, can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interperation. Its most substantive contribution is in proposing a solution to problems of indeterminacy that remain unsloved in the literature.

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"In Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, Timothy McCarthy undertakes an attractive project that attempts to bring together two dominant themes in the philosophy of language of the last half century."--Mind "In Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, Timothy McCarthy undertakes an attractive project that attempts to bring together two dominant themes in the philosophy of language of the last half century."--Mind

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Introduction	p. 1
Prospect	p. 1
Some Recent History	p. 2
Conformal Interpretation	p. 10
Logic and Radical Interpretation	p. 16
The Limits of Determinacy	p. 24
Credo	p. 28
Radical interpretation	p. 31
The Problem	p. 31
The Minimal Framework	p. 33
Isomorphism and Indeterminacy	p. 43
Conformal Explanation and Semantic Content	p. 55
Conformal Interpretation	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 82
The Roots of Reference	p. 103
Naming and Conformality	p. 103
Observation Terms	p. 115
Homogeneous Natural Kind Terms	p. 123
Grounding the Model	p. 145
Reference to Inhomogeneous Kinds	p. 158
The Ground of Logic	p. 189
Introduction	p. 189
Framework 1	p. 193
Invariance 1	p. 199
Completeness and Determinacy	p. 205
Characterizing Alternatives 1	p. 210
The Bounds of Logic 1	p. 215
Framework 2	p. 225
Invariance 2	p. 228
Charaterizing Alternatives 2	p. 233
The Bounds of Logic 2	p. 235
Endpoint	p. 241
Index	p. 249
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