4144 | Common human behaviour enables us to interpret an unknown language [Wittgenstein] |
11049 | To communicate, language needs agreement in judgment as well as definition [Wittgenstein] |
6314 | Weird translations are always possible, but they improve if we impose our own logic on them [Quine] |
6315 | We should be suspicious of a translation which implies that a people have very strange beliefs [Quine] |
7330 | The principle of charity only applies to the logical constants [Quine, by Miller,A] |
6316 | We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL] |
6275 | You can't say 'most speaker's beliefs are true'; in some areas this is not so, and you can't count beliefs [Putnam] |
18703 | Davidson's Cogito: 'I think, therefore I am generally right' [Davidson, by Button] |
3971 | There is simply no alternative to the 'principle of charity' in interpreting what others do [Davidson] |
8869 | The principle of charity attributes largely consistent logic and largely true beliefs to speakers [Davidson] |
19154 | The principle of charity says an interpreter must assume the logical constants [Davidson] |
3402 | If someone says "I do and don't like x", we don't assume a contradiction [Kim] |
3403 | We assume people believe the obvious logical consequences of their known beliefs [Kim] |
9040 | Charity should minimize inexplicable error, rather than maximising true beliefs [Evans] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
8615 | We need natural properties in order to motivate the principle of charity [Lewis] |
8614 | A sophisticated principle of charity sometimes imputes error as well as truth [Lewis] |
2762 | Charity makes native beliefs largely true, and Humanity makes them similar to ours [Dancy,J] |
7328 | The principle of charity is holistic, saying we must hold most of someone's system of beliefs to be true [Miller,A] |
7329 | Maybe we should interpret speakers as intelligible, rather than speaking truth [Miller,A] |
4734 | Cryptographers can recognise that something is a language, without translating it [O'Grady] |