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Why Baker and Venuti do no know what empiricism is

What is it about?

This is a double book review, first of Baker's Translation and Conflict, then of Venuti's Translation Changes Everything. But it focuses on what they say about empiricism.

Why is it important?

Without an empirical element, we are apt to simply express our personal opinions as the truth of the world, as if we knew everything prior to doing any research. This willful blindness unfortunately characterizes some of our more activist approaches.

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