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What is the subject of Quine's famous indeterminacy of translation thesis?
Translating poetry
Musical notation
Translation of scientific theories
Translation between languages
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The indeterminacy of translation thesis posits that there is no one-to-one correspondence between terms in different languages, and that the meaning of a term is determined by its context. This thesis is often associated with the philosopher W. V. O. Quine, who argued that the meaning of a term is "an indeterminate function of experience as a whole."
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