Knowing the Answer
2007; Wiley; Volume: 75; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00081.x
ISSN1933-1592
Autores Tópico(s)Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Resumo“ev’ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin’ is knowin’ what to throw away and knowing what to keep.” (Kenny Rogers) How should one understand knowledge‐ wh ascriptions? That is, how should one understand claims such as “I know where the car is parked,” which feature an interrogative complement? The received view is that knowledge‐ wh reduces to knowledge that p , where p happens to be the answer to the question Q denoted by the wh ‐clause. I will argue that knowledge‐ wh includes the question—to know‐ wh is to know that p , as the answer to Q . I will then argue that knowledge‐ that includes a contextually implicit question. I will conclude that knowledge is a question‐relative state . Knowing is knowing the answer, and whether one knows the answer depends (in part) on the question.
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