 One might challenge CH1 on the grounds that charitable interpretation is a holistic matter, and, while the liberal interpretations are charitable in some respects, they are uncharitable in others. After all, the puzzles and arguments discussed in  §2  seem to show that no interpretation can secure the truth of everything that we are inclined to say about ordinary objects. For instance, the liberal interpretations on which MC1 comes out true (‘Athena and Piece exist’) must, on pain of contradiction, make at least one of MC2 through MC4 come out false. But then some other intuitively true claim—perhaps, ‘Athena and Piece (if they exist) are identical’—will come out false. The demanding interpretations on which MC1 comes out false do better than the liberal interpretations on this score, since they can make all of MC2 through MC4 come out true. This gain in charity might then be held to counterbalance the loss in charity from rendering MC1  false.[61] 