ABSTRACT
Knowing to a practically adequate degree the intentional, behavioural and structural-interrelational properties possessed by a culturally different action type entails possessing to a practically adequate degree a concept of that action type. This chapter argues that culturally different agents are able to understand their own and each other's actions. They possess concepts of what are from the judge's perspective, at least culturally different actions, and of the various component properties of those actions intentional, behavioural and structural-interrelational. The chapter categorizes the epistemic conditions affecting the judicial acquisition of a concept including a culturally different concept in terms of either the internal capacities of the judge or the external circumstances surrounding the judge. Under conditions of conceptual difference, understanding is possible only by means of a process of concept acquisition on the part of the judge.
