...: the set of unstructured propositions expressible in each of these languages is identical. To support his interpretation of the composition debate, Hirsch appeals to the principle of charity: a principle widely accepted by philosophers of language to be an essential constraint on interpretation...

...This chapter outlines the notion of the principle of charity proposed by Donald Davidson, which considers the rationality and interpretation of a speaker’s statement. It looks into charity’s role as a principle governing not only the pursuit of knowledge about the meaning by the radical interpreter...

..., such as the principle of charity. A familiar view is that the intended interpretation is the one that best meets a combination of constraints. It is suggested that this situation can be modelled as follows: each constraint determines a binary relation on the set X of interpretations (‘x is at least...

... Arcesilaus Aristarchus Aristophanes of Byzantium Crantor Sedley David Aspasius Galen Hippocrates Second Sophistic metre allegory texts Most Glenn authority close reading education principle of charity impartiality criteria for authenticity clarity and coherence lecture notes scholarly...

... pad for Nietzsche’s subversive account of ethics. British Empiricism egoism utility forgetting morality interpretation Principle of Charity inconsistency Rée P Liar Paradox redoubling ressentiment Tour of the Workshop values Williams B Streitschrift consistency drives scholars...

.... The resulting account is contrasted with the knowledge-maximizing account presented by Tim Williamson (2000). Davidson Donald Radical Interpretation Rule Assertion ENA MMENA NA Norm of assertion Williamson Tim Assent Principle of Charity Quine Willard Truth Sincerity Declarative mood Dummett...

... means precisely what it seems to mean. This is called a semantic principle of charity. It combines a principle of local interpretation – an attempt to understand how each bit of text moves the enterprise along – with a principle of global interpretation – an attempt to see, if possible, how...

... as “Leibniz's System.” This difficulty raises problems of interpretation, since it is sometimes maintained that the principle of charity precludes the assignment of frankly inconsistent views to a philosopher. The essay argues that we should not be misled by the intentionalist fallacy into looking for order...

... This article provides a panoramic view of paradoxes of theoretical and practical rationality. These puzzles are organized as apparent counterexamples to attractive principles such as the principle of charity, the transitivity of preferences, and the principle that one should maximize expected utility...

... ‘radical interpretation’ is proposed, in which, under the ‘Principle of Charity’, a person’s system of beliefs and values is presumed to be, by and large, ‘coherent’. It asks how coherent are the present beliefs underlying a person’s apparently unwise treatment decision—how well do they fit...

... illustrates this by appeal to Ramsey's work on subjective probability); by the same token, if interpreters are to get anywhere at all they must start by an interpretative ‘Principle of Charity’ on which they assume at the outset that the speaker's beliefs are mostly true and that his utterances...

...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...

... actions done on the basis of practical deliberation. The principle of charity is essential to making sense of the actions of others since it is essential to understanding what their reasons are when they act. reasons normative v psychological questions about Smith M Audi R basic schema for practical...

... knowledge metalinguistic negotiation norms of assertion temporal externalism stipulation implicit definition principle of charity analyticity This chapter addresses the puzzle about stipulation posed in the previous chapter. We argued there that stipulations do not seem to resolve definitional...

...-reductive physicalism. Stoic metaphysics counting grounding fundamentality corporealism materialism physicalism principle of charity A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: “What is there?” It can be answered, moreover...

...Many philosophers assume that Donald Davidson's principle of charity is at least compatible with trusting what others write or say. Against this, this chapter argues that in a large number of cases in which we take ourselves to be learning from others by accepting what they write...

... to this as a Principle of Charity. In its simplest form, it enjoins us to ascribe to a community of speakers that interpretation of their language which maximizes the fraction of utterances which are true. In more 272 sophisticated forms, it requires us to attribute to that community the combination...

... Comprehension relativism revenge Russell’s paradox absolute generality generalized quantifier metasemantics extensionality compositionality principle of charity accommodation The characteristic claim of my preferred, expansionist version of relativism is that the universe of discourse is always open...

... examines the foundations and prospects for the project of radical interpretation, including the grounding of the Principle of Charity, the indeterminacy of interpretation, and the reality of language. The third part examines a number of important conclusions that Davidson has argued for on the basis...