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Quine's prose is a little bit too exciting for writing in theoretical philosophy. why didn't he write dry, dull and boring, just like all the rest of the respectable philosophers?

I really don't get how there can be indeterminacy of translation for Quine. His theory states the the meaning of an expression is it's empirical meaning and if two expressions correlate with the same dispositions to (verbal) behaviour, they are alike in meaning, for they have the same empirical meaning.
Now indeterminacy of a sentence S1 would require something like S2 and S3 being equally good translations of it,...

First reading of this book. Admittedly never read it before 😅