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(redirected from Willard Van Orman Quine)

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WVQWillard Van Orman Quine (mathematician and philosopher; 1908-2000)
WVQWavelet Vector Quantization
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On this, it's worth thinking about what the great American philosopher Willard van Orman Quine wrote of the indeterminacy of translation: this doesn't mean there is no such thing as a good or a bad translation, but that fidelity to the spirit of the original may mean betraying it at a literal level.
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