0440949 Andreas van Cranenburgh

1. Davidson suggests that a Tarski-style theory of meaning is what underlies
interpretation. Meaning is to be understood through thruth conditions. Given
an interpreter's knowledge of what sentences are true, they infer their
meanings. Meaning is then the result of interpretation, which is inferred
from behavior.

2. Much less room is left for indeterminacy in radical interpretation
than is characteristic of radical translation, because of the principle
of charity. The nature of this indeterminacy is that of the data
underdetermining theory, simply a lack of evidence. It cannot always be
resolved, but then again it doesn't need to be, because if the evidence
doesn't provide a way to make the distinction, then the distinction is not
significant.

3.
One may proceed by assessing the probability that the utterances of a
speaker are true, by corroborating the utterances with those of other
individuals.