Charity Implies Meta‐Charity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10352245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Sorensen (0000-0003-1635-0980, Dartmouth Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 290-315 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2004.tb00342.x |
| OpenAlex | W2017721004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
The principle of charity says that all agents are rational. The principle of meta‐charity says that all agents believe all agents are rational. My thesis is that the arguments which are used to support charity also support meta‐charity. Meta‐charity implies meta‐meta‐charity. By recursion, the principle of charity implies that it is common knowledge. But there appears to be intelligent, well‐informed disagreement with the principle of charity. So if the entailment thesis holds, opponents of the principle of charity have a new objection to the principle. Defenders of the principle of charity must either refute the entailment thesis or accept much stronger consequences than they expected. “As I am, so I see.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |