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work_r3qhkf6q65dx3emnbouua3rooa	Paul Thagard	Rationality and Charity	1983	18	.pdf	application/pdf	8162	498	52	methodological discussions of psychology have drawn on similar principles and proposed that we should not give an account of people's cognitive behavior which labels them as illogical or irrational (Sober 1978; the discipline of economics and the interdisciplinary field of decision science have developed a strong tradition of interpreting individual and institutional choice behavior in such a way as to preserve the assumption We can now state the most general principle of charity: Avoid interpreting people as violating normative standards. Hence translation of the utterances of people of other cultures and philosophies may well require that we understand them as violating our principles of logic, of rationality. We shall now argue that similar principles of charity are also inappropriate for understanding the ordinary inferential behavior of people in our own culture. Nevertheless, several philosophers have argued, on different methodological grounds, that an assumption of rationality is required for the explanation of human inferential behavior.	./cache/work_r3qhkf6q65dx3emnbouua3rooa.pdf	./txt/work_r3qhkf6q65dx3emnbouua3rooa.txt