On linguistic aspects of translation

Abstract

According to Bertrand Russell, “no one can understand the word ‘cheese’ unless he has a non linguistic acquaintance with cheese.1’ 1 If, however, we follow Russell’s fundamental precept and place our “emphasis upon the linguistic aspects of traditional philosophical problems,” then we are obliged to state that no one can understand the word "cheese” unless he has an acquaintance with the meaning assigned to this word in the lexical code of English