Know-wh does not reduce to know-that
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Title | Know-wh does not reduce to know-that |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Authors | Farkas, K. |
Journal title | American Philosophical Quarterly |
Year | 2016 |
Pages | 109-122 |
Volume | 53 |
Issue | 2 |
Abstract | Know-wh (knowing what, where etc) ascriptions are ubiquitous in many languages. One standard analysis of know-wh is this: someone knows-wh just in case she knows that p, where p is an answer to the question included in the wh-clause. Additional conditions have also been proposed, but virtually all analyses assume that propositional knowledge of an answer is at least a necessary condition for knowledge-wh (even if it is not sufficient). This paper challenges this assumption, by arguing that there are cases where we have knowledge-wh without knowledge-that of an answer, for example in the cases familiar from arguments for the Extended Mind hypothesis. |
Publisher link | http://apq.press.illinois.edu/53/2/farkas.html |
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Department of Philosophy
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