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    It is not the case that First-person knowledge alone is insufficient for interpreting others' behavior.

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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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    • 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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