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L’art de faire crédit ou comment ne pas prendre les autres pour des imbéciles

Isabelle Delpla — 2002

Philosophia Scientiae

The principle of charity is here analysed as one form of interpretive benevolence whose aim is to give others credit and not to take them for idiots. In this very aim, however, it is in competition with other maxims, each of which fights against one kind of stupidity. That being the case, we must criticize the false alternatives between charity and contempt, on the one hand, and charity and nonsense, on the other. The principle of charity cannot be granted legitimacy as a principle specific to the...

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