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In Samuel D. Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge: Blackwell. pp. 526–543 (1994)
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Though not meant as a practical procedure, it can help our thinking about language and the mind if we ask what would be involved in interpreting someone's words and actions. Moreover, if we imagine ourselves beginning this interpretative process without any prior knowledge of what the person means by her words or what propositional attitudes she has, then we are engaged in what is called ‘radical interpretation’, quine originally discussed the idea of radical translation in respect of another's language and Davidson, generalizing on this so that interpretation and not merely translation is at issue, has made this notion central to his account of the mind. (See also rationality.)

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Samuel Guttenplan
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