Lastly, there is another thing about languages, and that is a little bit related to the theory theory
of concepts that we talked about.
So William, one Aumann Quine, very famous philosopher also and hero of mine from last century.
I was talking about something called the Indeterminacy of Translation.
And yet again, they're using very funny examples.
He was using the example of a rabbit.
And I will go through on a very, very high level.
Of course, his his main problem and he's written up in a very good book called Word and Object.
So the example here is that you're out in the bush somewhere.
You're with this native speaker of an unknown language called Arunta.
And there is the rabbit just passing by you.
It's a very high speed.
And this native speaker, he just yells out, go back.
I got my guy.
And you're an English speaker and you don't know a bit.
Arunta, how should you even start trying to translate this statement?
You could think that he's saying a rabbit like Bud.
What's hindering you for instead thinking that he's saying low food, like something to eat or let's
go hunting or a momentary rabbit stage or there will be a storm tonight.
Maybe there's a connection in the religion about that and an unretouched rabbit part because you're
only seeing part of the rabbit, right?
You aren't seeing the whole thing.
So is there a way to determine whether you ever can translate anything?
Because you need to start at this very common ground level where you actually share the same experience
about the world but is using languages very differently.
And if you think about this, this is not related to that.
You cannot speak Arunta.
It's the same thing for any kid, for any child that are trying to learn any language.
So how could we then know that we are ever using the languages in the same way?
How can we know that we actually could translate between each other?
And as a business consultant when I'm out and different corporations and helping that out, I see this
very, very often that even people from different departments are using a little bit different versions
of their nomenclature of their language and aren't actually translating 100 percent between each other,
even if they're using exactly the same language and ends up in a lot of misunderstandings and a lot
of work that needs to be done.
So this is a common problem related to all languages.
We could be better on it to try to be more precise and more clear when we talk and communicate, but
we'll never get around it.
And it's a little bit, as I said, related to the theory of the concept that we talked about, that
how could we ever have the same concept?
Good.
So that was the end of this lecture about the terms and propositions and the sentence meaning.
So now going into a new area, which is about speech act, which is very much related to intentionality
and intentional states that we're talking about.
See you there by.