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by raincom 1742 days ago
There is a thesis called "Indeterminacy of Translation" by the late philosopher W.V.O Quine. You don't need to worry about "fully translating" any word from one natural language to another language.
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Quine, as in...?

Aha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

So, yes -- though named not by but for him, by Douglas Hofstadter in G, E, B.