Fred Will has been translating since the early fifties, writing about translation since the early seventies-and he packs the fruit ofboth labors into the brilliant jumble of boxes that comprise this book.

Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993, $69.95. University of PennsylvaniaGerald Prince Translation Theory and Practice: Reassembling the Tower, by Frederic Will 210 pp. Besides, the remedy he proposes does not inspire complete confidence-Hegel's dialectical logic works in mysterious ways! On die whole, however, Burdens ofProofin Modern Discourse constitutes a fine achievement and will be of interest to any student of reasoning strategies. More generally, maybe Gaskins exaggerates the negative effects of arguments-from-ignorance in the academic domain. At times, too, some of his interpretations of particular statements are not entirely convincing: when Wittgenstein writes that 'every sentence in our language 'is in order as it is,'' for example, he is not so much sanctioning the exemplariness ofordinary language as underlining its rule-governed nature. At times, Gaskins perhaps overstates the weight of the argument-fromignorance : for instance, it is not clear that paradigm shifts in scientific theory entail shifts in burdens of proof. Reviews149 persuasively argues that Kant's transcendental method constitutes the foundation of contemporary polemical patterns, and sheds a great deal of light on the sudden shifts obtaining in academic inquiry and public policy debates. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Translation theory and practice