So one of the questions we actually agreed on the whole time and the other were just the semantics of “language” and “translate”. Oh well, discussion over.
Ha! Well, I did argue that all languages (recognizable as such) were in principle inter-translatable for what could only be described as metaphysical reasons. I’d be surprised if you couldn’t find holes in an argument that ambitious and that unempirical. But it may be that some of the motivation is lost.
So one of the questions we actually agreed on the whole time and the other were just the semantics of “language” and “translate”. Oh well, discussion over.
Ha! Well, I did argue that all languages (recognizable as such) were in principle inter-translatable for what could only be described as metaphysical reasons. I’d be surprised if you couldn’t find holes in an argument that ambitious and that unempirical. But it may be that some of the motivation is lost.