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Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

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Michael Tomasello*
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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.Michael.tomasello@duke.edu
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Abstract

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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e173
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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