INESCRUTABILIDADE DA REFERÊNCIA E RELATIVIDADE ONTOLÓGICA: CORRESPONDÊNCIAS CONCEITUAIS EM QUINE.

This article deals with the conceptual correspondences between two of the central theses of Willard Van Orman Quine's philosophical proposal, the inscrutability of reference, through which Quine presents examples to support his theory of the indeterminacy of translation; and ontological relativity, with which Quine deals with the different possibilities that linguists have while carrying out observations for the translation of new languages. These Quinean theses are strongly linked due to their centrality to the theory of indeterminacy of translation, that is, the impossibility of obtaining a precise referential meaning. In view of this thematic choice, intrinsic to the origins of naturalized epistemology, I intend to present introductory elements to Quine's philosophy of language, which explain the elementary conceptual correspondence of his thought, that is, which demonstrate the inseparability between the thesis of the inscrutability of reference and the consequent ontological relativity. With the verification of the non-dependence of ontological postulates for the semantic and intersubjective effectiveness of language, we can affirm that it is due to the indeterminacy of the translation that the inscrutability of the reference is verified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]