Responding to the ‘Satz’-challenge: A reply to Martin Stokhof and Jaap van der Does
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https://doi.org/10.15845/nwr.v14.3737Keywords:
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, philosophy of translation, interpretation, proposition, 'Satz'Abstract
I here reply to Martin Stokhof and Jaap van der Does’ criticism of my translation of ‘Satz’ as ‘proposition’ in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, arguing that they fail to appreciate the difference between translation and interpretation.
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