ABSTRACT
This chapter dicusses an earlier construal of the set of beliefs informing everyday interpretive action as a folk psychology continuous with much of philosophical and scientific psychology and quite at home within the physicalistic worldview. It follows that interpretive explanations of behaviour are reducible to physical or other higher-order explanations of behaviour. The judicial acquisition of culturally different concepts, the radical cultural incommensurability thesis denies the capacity of a judge to successfully interpret testimonial evidence about culturally different concepts. Adequately grasping the nature of the judicial interpretation of testimonial evidence is, therefore, fundamental to adequately grasping the nature of judicial concept acquisition and understanding, both generally and within a context involving cultural difference. The nature of oral testimonial action our key focuses on gain insight into the nature of the interpretation of such action. The chapter provides a naturalistically sound account of the judicial acquisition of concepts by evidential means.
