%0 Journal Article
%T Gullible Yet Intelligible
%A Daniel O'Brien
%J Abstracta : Linguagem, Mente e A£¿£¿o
%D 2006
%I Abstracta
%X In this paper I describe the imaginary community of Gullible. Gulliblians are led by moralpressures to believe whatever they are told and, in the scenario that I sketch, this leads to themhaving widespread contradictory beliefs. This community is nevertheless intelligible to us givenwhat we know about their situation and their moral code. Davidson, however, holds there to bewhat I call a logicist constraint on interpretation: thinkers can only be interpreted if a goodproportion of their beliefs are rational and, for Davidson, rationality entails logical consistency.The possibility of Gullible therefore forces us to reject this logicist aspect of Davidson'saccount of interpretation and intelligibility.
%U http://www.abstracta.pro.br/revista/volume3number1/3_obrien.pdf