He included the "principle of charity," which assumes that another speaker has true beliefs, in a method for understanding unfamiliar speech "from scratch."
This thinker wrote that "framework theories" cannot make sense of radio host Goodman Ace's malapropisms. This philosopher argued that an actor's "pro-attitude" must be part of the "primary reason" that causes an action. This author of "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" proposed using Tarski's semantic theory of truth as the core for a "theory of meaning," though he later claimed "there is no such thing as a language." He included the "principle of charity," which assumes that another speaker has true beliefs, in a method for understanding unfamiliar speech "from scratch." His alternative to mind-body dualism held that no natural laws connect physical events with mental events. For 10 points, name this American philosopher who devised "radical interpretation" and anomalous monism.
This thinker wrote that "framework theories" cannot make sense of radio host Goodman Ace's malapropisms.
Donald Herbert Davidson