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1. Propositions exist only if "we have before us some standard of when to speak of
propositions as identical and when as distinct" (W&O p.200)
2. There is no such standard of individuation for propositions.
3. Therefore, propositions do not exist.
Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of radical translation: There can be no such thing as
the correct translation manual of a radically alien language into one's own language; for
whatever translation manual one comes up with, there will always be another that is
equally correct but that maps the alien sentences onto sentences of one's own language
that, by any remotely possible rendering of synonymy, are not synonymous with those
the first manual maps on to one's own sentences—they needn't even have the same truth
values.