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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 191–217.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to be knowledge about oneself or indexical knowledge. So in order to envisage the gods' epistemic situation coherently, we need to assume that they lack those introspective abilities. But once we recognize that, it turns out that positing a special kind of information is a gratuitous addition. The two gods...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 359–406.
Published: 01 July 2012
... knowledge is knowledge of the latter kind. Se- mantics is a disputed terrain. But Kaplan’s picture lends support to one claim: knowledge of the context of speech does mix with linguistic com- petence to generate meanings for sentences. This is just because of index- icals. On the orthodox picture...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 410–417.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and Its Semantics . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Fodor Jerry A. , and Pylyshyn Zenon W. 1988 . “ Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis .” Cognition 28 , no. 1 : 3 – 71 . Pylyshyn Zenon 1989 . “ The Role of Location Indexes in Spatial...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... For the apparent truth of knowledge 1. Cohen (1988, 97), for example, says ‘knows’ is an indexical—in the Kaplanian sense of having an invariant character that is a function from contexts to content—which predicates different properties in different contexts, just as ‘I’ denotes different individ- uals...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 35–82.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Indexical .” Noûs 13 : 3 – 21 . Pettit Dean 2002 . “ Why Knowledge Is Unnecessary for Understanding Language .” Mind 111 , no. 443 : 519 – 50 . Rabern Brian 2012 . “ Against the Identification of Assertoric Content with Compositional Value .” Synthese 189 , no. 1 : 75...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537.
Published: 01 October 2002
... so. Where demonstratives are used, they are a matter of ancillary knowledge, of nonlinguistic perceptual perspective. The semantics of demonstratives on the proposed Indexical Theory makes essential reference to demonstrations, which are assigned to syntactic occurrences of demonstratives...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Melissa Fusco Moss Sarah , Probabilistic Knowledge . New York: Oxford University Press , 2018 . xi + 268 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 In her wide-ranging book, Probabilistic Knowledge , Sarah Moss presents a unified account of probabilistic content in theories...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 487–516.
Published: 01 October 2006
... about oneself” (18). 35. Bertrand Russell, in Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1948), groups indexicals and demonstratives under the moniker “egocentric” terms. About such terms, Russell observes that they denote “a different object on each occasion...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 126–132.
Published: 01 January 2017
... that of “core indexicals” such as ‘I’ and ‘here’ (103–10). However, ‘know’ is not linked to a scale of epistemic strength and so is not, like ‘flat’, gradable (118–24). Further, Blome-Tillmann argues, challenges to ‘knowledge’ ascriptions “are never merely challenges of the truth of one's ‘knowledge’-ascription...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 July 2002
..., Central Division, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2003. 3 Crimmins and Perry, “The Prince and the Phone Booth: Reporting Puzzling Beliefs,” Journal of Philosophy 86 (1989): 685–711. 4 Larson and Ludlow, “Interpreted Logical Forms,” Synthese 95 (1993): 305–55. 5 Larson and Segal, Knowledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360.
Published: 01 July 2001
... for other conjunctions among the four statements discussed in this section.) (2) Indexical truths. As described, the information contained in PT specifies a world objectively. For this reason, it does not imply any indexical truths: truths such as ‘I am Australian’, or ‘life evolved...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (4): 619–620.
Published: 01 October 2011
... © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 INDEX OF VOLUME 120 ARTICLES Chalmers, David J., Verbal Disputes 515 Fischer, John Martin, and Patrick Todd, The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks 97 Graham, Peter A., ‘Ought’ and Ability 337 Lam, Barry...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 643–644.
Published: 01 October 2012
... © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 INDEX OF VOLUME 121 ARTICLES Arpaly, Nomy and Timothy Schroeder, Deliberation and Acting for Reasons 209 Bradley, Darren, Four Problems about Self-Locating Belief 149 Bradley, Richard, Multidimensional Possible...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 314–316.
Published: 01 April 2008
... descriptions, proper names, and pronouns are the same—they have the same syntactic as well as semantic structure. They are definite descriptions, with the definite article THE taking two arguments, an index andaNoun Phrase. Elbourne’s proposal targets two dominant views, one in linguistics, the other...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 384–391.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... But the idea is that ‘that p’ can vary in unusual ways, ones that do not involve ordinary indexicality, and which depend on ‘that p’ being embedded in a belief or knowledge attribution. 388 BOOK REVIEWS worlds that correctly characterizes each...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 July 2010
... since one of his main themes was the impossibility of standing outside language to describe the reality that makes what we say true or false. Roger M. White University of Leeds Philosophical Review, Vol. 119, No. 3, 2010 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2010-005 Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 July 2010
.../00318108-2010-005 Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 148 pp. 1. Introduction This is an extremely rich book, which offers a novel picture of knowledge of our internal world and how it fits into a more general picture of ourselves...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 394–398.
Published: 01 July 2010
... since one of his main themes was the impossibility of standing outside language to describe the reality that makes what we say true or false. Roger M. White University of Leeds Philosophical Review, Vol. 119, No. 3, 2010 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2010-005 Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 398–401.
Published: 01 July 2010
... since one of his main themes was the impossibility of standing outside language to describe the reality that makes what we say true or false. Roger M. White University of Leeds Philosophical Review, Vol. 119, No. 3, 2010 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2010-005 Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Kai von Fintel; Anthony S. Gillies Epistemic modals are standardly taken to be context-dependent quantifiers over possibilities. Thus sentences containing them get truth-values with respect to both a context and an index. But some insist that this relativization is not relative enough: `might...