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    First-person knowledge alone is insufficient for interpreting others' behavior.

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    • 1.When interpreting others' behavior, one quickly runs into the limits of first-person knowledge simpliciter.
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    • 2.Opaque intentional contexts for others cannot be specified from the interpreter's perspective alone.
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    • 1.Davidson's principle of charity holds that radical interpretation succeeds by projecting one's own rational standards onto others' utterances.
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    • 2.If first-person rational norms suffice to triangulate meaning across speakers, first-person knowledge is not merely insufficient but foundational.
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    • 3.The opacity of intentional contexts is navigable precisely because interpreters assume shared logical and normative structure with the interpreted.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations imply that shared forms of life, not third-person data, ground the possibility of understanding others.
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    • 2.Forms of life are accessible to interpreters through their own participation in communal practices, not through additional empirical knowledge of others.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Naturalistic and hermeneutic approaches see the relationship of the subject and object of inquiry as forcing the social scientist to take either the third-person or first-person perspective. However, critical social science necessarily requires complex perspective taking and the coordination of various points of view, minimally that of social scientists with the subjects under study. The “second-person perspective” differs from both third-person observer and the first-person participant perspect
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