I argue for an alternative to Quine’s conception of observation sentences, one that better satisfies the roles Quine envisages for them, and that otherwise respects Quinean constraints. After reviewing a certain predicament Quine got into in balancing the needs of the intersubjectivity of observation sentences with his notion of the stimulus meaning of an observation sentence, I push for replacing the latter with what I call the ‘stimulus field’ of an observation sentence, a notion that remains ‘proximate’ but is shared between different language users. Throughout, I emphasize the epistemological role of observation sentences.

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重温观察句

我主张有一种替代 Quine 的观察句子概念的替代方案，它可以更好地满足 Quine 为它们设想的角色，并且在其他方​​面尊重 Quinean 的约束。在回顾了奎因在平衡观察句子的主体间性的需求和他的观察句子刺激意义的概念时遇到的某种困境后，我推动用我所谓的观察句子的“刺激场”取代后者，一个保持“近似”但在不同语言用户之间共享的概念。在整个过程中，我强调观察句子的认识论作用。