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Soyons charitables, mais pas trop !

Ruwen Ogien (2002)

Philosophia Scientiae

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In this paper, I insist on two limits of the principle of charity. 1) The principle is supposed to help us solve the problem of the observational under-determination of our attributions of beliefs and desires. But it fails on that ground. The principle rules out attributions of beliefs and desires that are incompatible with the principle, but it cannot help us decide between incompatible attributions of beliefs and desires that are compatible with the principle; 2) Strong versions of...

«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...

La passe de l'espérance. L'émergence d'une mathématique du probable au XVIIème siècle

Norbert Meusnier (1995)

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines

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L'article tente d'évoquer le réseau des conditions qui, sur le terreau du scepticisme constructif, permettent l'émergence, dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIème siècle d'une mathématique du probable qui offre les éléments théoriques d'une nouvelle prudence ; il confronte cette émergence aux traces que nous possédons actuellement d'une quantification du probable au XIVème siècle. Le concept central de cette mathématisation est la valeur de l'espérance d'une situation de risque dont le modèle...