[lit-ideas] Re: Stenka Rasin
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:05:26 -0700
I so wish that people would stop mystifying the possibilities of translation.
(How many natural languages did Quine speak, after all?) Davidson on
incommensurable discourses is right on.
'Quine loved languages. He wrote books in English, French, and
Portuguese. He was also fluent in Spanish, Italian, and German.'
http://www.wvquine.org/wvq-avocation.html
More importantly, Quine was the author of a short story, 'It Tastes Like
Chicken, which was published in the 'little magazine' Furioso, in 1951.
That was two years before Wittgenstein's injunction to describe the
smell of coffee appeared in print.
Robert Paul
Keeper of the Gavagai
St. Mutton's College
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