The problem of translation introduces the discourse of internalism, which tries to picture the world as viewed from inside. But language is a means by which we attempt to see ourselves as from outside. Texts internalize internal insights. Translation into another language would be yet another externalization, but not of the original insights, which are now contaminated by the desire to translate. Since semiosis is a developmental process, as interpretants replace each other we accumulate a burden of possible interpretations as meaning becomes more specific, making it increasingly difficult to recover an original insight, which has become even more untranslatable.