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The distal scene, shared by the field linguist and the native, is the proper focus for the linguist in his enterprise of radical translation. The distal scene shared by mother and child is likewise the proper focus for the mother in helping the child with the language. Observation sentences are mostly reports on the distal scene. It is there, and not at the neural intake, that the action is. It is where minds meet.
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Quine, W.V. (2000). Quine’s Responses. In: Orenstein, A., Kotatko, P. (eds) Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 210. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3933-5_21
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