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Pourquoi il faut traiter autrui á l’égal de soi-même. Interprétation et charité en anthropologie

Gérard Lenclud (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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This article defends the position that anthropological interpretation is necessarily charitable to others. Nevertheless, given that charity seems to imply that others should systematically be absolved–in advance–of the mistakes they (like the interpreter) are likely to make and that these mistakes are significant (just as those of the interpreter are), it may be preferable to evoke a “Postulate of Equality” rather than the “Principle of Charity”.

«Comment ne pas être charitable dans l’interprétation»

G. E. R. Lloyd (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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The first part of this paper expresses some reservations about certain ways in which the principle of charity has been employed. Some deflationary remarks criticize the application of some pet western ideas to the analysis of other cultures, namely mentalities, metaphors, mythology. I turn next to suggest that, contrary to the claim of the defenders of the principle of charity, intelligibility cannot be a universal assumption considering the various roles that deception and the cultivation...

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

Isabelle Delpla (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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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...

L’idée d’un sens commun

Vincent Descombes (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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This article, which emphasizes the hermeneutic origin of the principle of charity, attempts to resituate the contemporary theories within a tradition of reflection about the anthropological problem (how can we claim to reach an understanding of other types of human lives?). These doctrines actually propose a philosophy of common sense, in other words a solution to the problem of exercising rationality. Due to a failure to relate this common sense to any particular form of social life,...

Quine, entre Lévy-Bruhl et Malinowski

Sandra Laugier (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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The article examines the anthropological relevance of Quine’s indeterminacy of translation thesis, and shows how this thesis questions relativism, but also a species of universalism. This is demonstrated through an analysis of Quine’s critique of the idea of prelogicity, in connection with which he specifically devised the principle of charity, which was later taken over by Davidson. Examining the uses and scope of this principle, as well as comparing it to the claims of Lévy-Bruhl,...

Le concept kuhnien d’incommensurabilité, reconsidéré à la lumière d’une théorie structurale de la signification

Léna Soler (2000)

Philosophia Scientiae

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L’article présente à un niveau général les concepts fondamentaux et les principes directeurs d’un programme de recherche visant une caractérisation fine de la nature et des conséquences épistémologiques de l’incommensurabilité des paradigmes scientifiques. On admet avec le dernier Kuhn que l’incommensurabilité est une conséquence du fonctionnement systémique du langage dans lequel s’exprime toute théorie, et l’on s’emploie alors à montrer la manière dont une conception structurale du...

Un point de logique aristotélicienne : le «définitionnel»

Claude Gaudin (1991)

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines

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Ni description, ni démonstration mais recherche de l'élément qui différencie un concept de ceux qui lui sont le plus proches, telle est la définition classique. On a choisi d'analyser ici 1) ce qui fait de la définition une forme de prédication «réflexive», 2) la liaison établie par Aristote entre la définition-formule qui permet d'identifier la chose, d'abord par rapport à elle-même, et la théorie des prédicables ! Celle-ci est une amorce systématique de ce qui est aujourd'hui la théorie...