nucleation

CLAIM-065: Pragmatic fidelity is approximate preservation of the ways an utterance conditions, transforms and constrains later interpretation and interaction, across transient framing and learned interpretive dispositions

1 min read

Properties7
StatusSuperseded — by CLAIM-101 — Translation is a context-conditioned transport process that preserves selected structures of communicative meaning to varying degrees while introducing distortions that may accumulate, attenuate or amplify under composition
Rolethesis
Warrantinterpretive
Tagsphilosophy-of-language, representation-learning
Linepragmatic-transport
SupersedesCLAIM-083 — Pragmatic translation fidelity is the preservation, under corresponding communicative conditions, of the ways an utterance transforms interpretation, interpersonal alignment and the possibilities for subsequent interaction
UsesTERM-033 — fidelity, as observational equivalence over response trajectories

Graph View

The claim

A45 §10: “The pragmatic fidelity of a translation can be characterized by the extent to which source and target utterances induce corresponding patterns of context-sensitive interpretation and subsequent communicative behavior, across both transient framing conditions and learned interpretive dispositions.” A48, outline v3, retitled What Survives Translation? Communicative Frames, In-Context Learning, and Dynamical Pragmatic Fidelity: “fidelity may be understood as approximate preservation of the ways an utterance conditions, transforms, and constrains subsequent interpretation and communicative interaction.” Its primary hypothesis (A48 §1.4), “Translations can exhibit static pragmatic equivalence while differing in the structure of the interpretive and communicative trajectories they induce”, is CLAIM-117.

Why it was replaced

“Corresponding patterns” is still an equivalence, approximate or not. U20 objected to exactly that (CLAIM-106), and A50 replaced it with CLAIM-101.

Backlinks