# Translation as interpretation

- Id: `translation_as_interpretation`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/translation-as-interpretation/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `cccee5fe87286e25fcf4f90efc766ac929abb4c5128ebfbf80be5c5cba773e98`

## Summary

Translation as interpretation recognizes that word choice, segmentation, and context necessarily shape the reading of a transmitted text.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,313 passages across 4 works, including Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth Carter, The Works of Epictetus, Translated into English by Elizabeth Carter, Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth Carter. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:elizabeth_carter.epictetus_introduction:9",
    "passage:elizabeth_carter.epictetus_introduction:8",
    "passage:elizabeth_carter.epictetus_introduction:7"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "translation as interpretation",
    "traduction comme interprétation"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 1313,
    "thinkers": 4,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.epictetus_introduction",
        "title": "Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/epictetus-introduction/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.epictetus_translation",
        "title": "The Works of Epictetus, Translated into English by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/epictetus-translation/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.translated_algarotti",
        "title": "Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Francesco Algarotti",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/francesco-algarotti/translated-algarotti/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.translated_crousaz",
        "title": "Jean-Pierre de Crousaz’s Examination of Mr. Pope’s Essay on Man, Translated by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Jean-Pierre de Crousaz",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jean-pierre-de-crousaz/translated-crousaz/"
    }
]
```