ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that, along with a world that is the product of our representations, vocabularies, or conceptual frameworks, there is a world that cannot be reduced to a collection of representations, vocabularies, or conceptualizations and can thus offer resistance to our human constructions. "The Man in the Threshold" begins with a conversation among Borges, Bioy Casares, and their friend Christopher Dewey, a representative of the British Council. Borges's "The Congress" seems to prefigure Davidson's understanding of intersubjectivity as essential to the experience of an objective world. Davidson's principle urges people to look for norms of intelligibility in the Other iscourse. He argues against the idea of conceptual schemes understood as "ways of organizing experience" or "systems of categories that give form to the data of sensation". Murdock is suggesting the existence of "alternative ways" of stating the facts known as the theory of indeterminacy of translation.
