...sentence. I am not myself persuaded that this is right ; but even if we accept this, it does not follow that there is no fact of the matter as to which of two observationally equivalent theories, by Quine's criterion, is correct. For many Verificationists...

...this is not the case. So, given Quine's thesis concerning the nature of semantic facts, he must admit that there is no fact of the matter as to which of two apparently conflicting theories with the same observational consequences is true. In fact, there...

...them. He is rather making a semantic claim. I think we can fairly represent his position as the claim that there is no fact of the matter as to which of them is true. In what follows we will say that such pairs of sentences are claimed to be 'equally true'. One such pair...

...cited Quine's underde termination thesis and Kuhn's incommensurability thesis as reasons for thinking that there is no fact of the matter as to which of two theories represents reality better, and hence no grounds for the scientist being a realist. Indeed,...

...A third proposal (based on van Fraassen's method of supervaluations), like the second one, concedes that there is no fact of the matter as to which of the n sums is identical to s, and yet, by contrast with the second proposal, argues that the claim...

...thesis, but Quine says more. What makes it indeterminacy rather than underdetermination is the idea that there is no fact of the matter as to which of the manuals is the right one. If the exact formulation of the thesis is controversial, there is even...

...providing meanings, the translation manuals are affected by indeterminacy, which amounts to saying that there is no fact of the matter as to which of them is correct. Furthermore, indeterminacy is a problem affecting not only theories of meaning, but also theories...