Investigating the alternative-sensitivity of know  

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Uegaki, Wataru ; Marty, Paul

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3 - 5, 2013, page 63–80.
Topik: know; Gettier problem; alternative-sensitivity; disjunction; experiment.
Fulltext: 3675-7326-1-PB(4).pdf (260.25KB)

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Several semantic analyses of know have been proposed in recent years to account for the so-called Gettier Problem. These analyses make distinct predictions regarding the sensitivity of know to the alternative possibilities expressed by its complement, as induced by expressions such as disjunction. These predictions were tested in two experiments. Results show that knowledge sentences with a disjunctive complement (e.g., John knows that Mary has a son or a daughter) are more likely to be judged as false than classically-equivalent sentences with nondisjunctive complements (e.g., John knows that Mary has a child) under Gettier-like scenarios. We discuss how these ?ndings provide evidence for the alternativesensitive approach to know.

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