
Published online:
14 July 2005
Published in print:
03 March 2005
Online ISBN:
9780191602634
Print ISBN:
9780199251346
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1. From Behavior to Holding True 1. From Behavior to Holding True
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2. The Analogy with Empirical Decision Theory 2. The Analogy with Empirical Decision Theory
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3. The Introduction of the Principle of Charity 3. The Introduction of the Principle of Charity
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4. Three Interpretations 4. Three Interpretations
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5. Is Charity Sufficient? 5. Is Charity Sufficient?
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6. The Assumption of Grace 6. The Assumption of Grace
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7. Stages of Interpretation 7. Stages of Interpretation
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Chapter
12 The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter
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Pages
174–197
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Published:March 2005
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Lepore, Ernie, and Kirk Ludwig, 'The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter', Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality (Oxford , 2005; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 July 2005), https://doi.org/10.1093/0199251347.003.0013, accessed 3 May 2025.
Abstract
Discusses the procedure of the radical interpreter, and in particular, the role of a truth theory for the subject’s language, how it motivates the introduction of a the Principle of Charity, roughly that a speaker is to be taken to have largely true general beliefs and largely true particular beliefs about his environment, and three interpretations of the principle. Argues for one of the interpretations but also that it is not sufficient for the work Davidson needs it to do and that a slightly different and stronger principle is needed which we call ‘Grace’. Ends with an account of the major stages of the procedure.
Keywords:
agreement, Grace, L-sentences, Principle of Charity, procedure of the radical interpreter, truth theory, Veracity
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