This essay attempts to reconcile charity with grace, the central concepts of two thinkers whose views may seem irreconcilable to many: Donald Davidson, an analytical philosopher and the most distinguished follower of Quine; and Julian Pitt-Rivers, an Europeanist anthropologist, who wrote at length on Spain and Southern France. The latter's historicist exegesis of gracia points to basic aspects of human experience that are also salient in the reduction to basics that Davidson carried out concerning interpretation and truth. For Davidson, in the face of ultimate indeterminacy, interpretation is made possible due to the rational accommodation that charity sparks off. For Pitt-Rivers, gratuity highlights how processes of personal interaction depend on the drawing of shared trajectories: that is, not only do I have to grant others charity to make sense of them, I also have to frame others as subjects with a future by relation to myself as already in existence. The paper proposes that human interaction involves processes of sensemaking that integrate shared intentionality (i.e. the credit with which we respond to the indeterminacy of meaning) with shared experience (i.e. the debt implicit in the ultimate underdetermination of the world's entities). Thus, it brings both concepts together under the label of charis, their common etymological root, suggesting that the dynamic it represents is a broader feature of life itself.

本文试图调和慈善与优雅，这是两位思想家的核心概念，他们的观点在许多人看来似乎是不可调和的：唐纳德·戴维森，一位分析哲学家和奎因最杰出的追随者；以及欧洲主义人类学家朱利安·皮特-里弗斯（Julian Pitt-Rivers），他详细地撰写了关于西班牙和法国南部的文章。后者对恩典的历史主义解释指出了人类经验的基本方面，这些方面在戴维森对解释和真理进行的基本还原中也很突出。对于戴维森来说，面对最终的不确定性，由于慈善引发的理性调和，解释成为可能。对于 Pitt-Rivers，小费强调个人互动过程如何依赖于共同轨迹的绘制：也就是说，我不仅必须给予他人慈善以理解他们，我还必须通过与我自己的关系将他人视为具有未来的主体，就像已经在存在。该论文提出，人类互动涉及将共享意向（即我们对意义的不确定性作出反应的信用）与共享经验（即世界实体的最终不确定性中隐含的债务）相结合的意义建构过程。因此，它将这两个概念结合在charis的标签下，这是它们共同的词源，表明它所代表的动态是生命本身的更广泛特征。