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Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief.

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Tomasello, M
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences
November 2021

More basic than the authors' distinction between knowing and believing is a distinction between knowledge-by-acquaintance (I know John Smith) and propositional knowledge/belief (I know/believe that John Smith lives in Durham). This distinction provides a better account of both the comparative and developmental data.

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The Behavioral and brain sciences

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1469-1825

ISSN

0140-525X

Publication Date

November 2021

Volume

44

Start / End Page

e173

Related Subject Headings

  • Knowledge
  • Humans
  • Friends
  • Experimental Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1109 Neurosciences
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
 

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Tomasello, M. (2021). Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e173. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x20001387
Tomasello, Michael. “Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief.The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (November 2021): e173. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x20001387.
Tomasello M. Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief. The Behavioral and brain sciences. 2021 Nov;44:e173.
Tomasello, Michael. “Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief.The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 44, Nov. 2021, p. e173. Epmc, doi:10.1017/s0140525x20001387.
Tomasello M. Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief. The Behavioral and brain sciences. 2021 Nov;44:e173.
Journal cover image

Published In

The Behavioral and brain sciences

DOI

EISSN

1469-1825

ISSN

0140-525X

Publication Date

November 2021

Volume

44

Start / End Page

e173

Related Subject Headings

  • Knowledge
  • Humans
  • Friends
  • Experimental Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1109 Neurosciences
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing