المسائل العقدیة فی تفسیر الإمـــام البغوی Issues Belief in Interpretation of Imam Baghawi

Imam Khomeini`s Quranic Interpretation and Hermeneutics

The words commentary and hermeneutics have been of different meanings for commentators. In the past, they were used interchangeably but in the present, the former means discovering the meaning of words or Divine goal and the latter using the word contrary to its appear meaning or understanding its inner meaning. Unlike these two groups, Imam Khomeini has considered interpretation as discovering...

Vagueness, Interpretation, and Probabilistic Belief

In many areas of natural language semantics it is useful to idealize away from the complexities of interpretation in context. In investigating quantification, for example, we can learn a lot about the meaning of the phrase most dogs have tails without resolving the precise denotation of dog or tail: for these purposes, it is usually enough to say that dog denotes the characteristic function of ...

Charity, Self Interpretation, and Belief

The purpose of this paper is to motivate and defend a recognizable version of N. L. Wilson’s “Principle of Charity.” Doing so will involve: (1) distinguishing it from the significantly different versions of the Principle familiar through the work of Quine and Davidson; (2) showing that it is compatible with, among other things, both semantic externalism and “simulation” accounts of interpretati...

Meaning and Belief in Constitutional Interpretation

“Think” Pragmatically: Children’s Interpretation of Belief Reports

Children under 4 years of age often evaluate belief reports based on reality instead of beliefs. They tend to reject sentences like, “John thinks that giraffes have stripes” on the grounds that giraffes do not have stripes. Previous accounts have proposed that such judgments reflect immature Theory of Mind or immature syntactic/semantic representations. We argue that the difficulty is actually ...