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The Face‐Value Theory, Know‐ that , Know‐ wh and Know‐ how

Author(s) -

Felappi Giulia

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

thought: a journal of philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 2161-2234

DOI - 10.1002/tht3.406

Subject(s) - need to know , face (sociological concept) , relation (database) , value (mathematics) , epistemology , face value , mathematical economics , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , linguistics , economics , computer security , statistics , database , finance

For sentences such as (1) Columbus knows that the sea is unpredictable there is a face‐value theory, according to which ‘that’‐clauses are singular terms denoting propositions. Famously, Prior raised an objection to the theory, but defenders of the face‐value theory such as Forbes, King, Künne, Pietroski and Stanley urged that the objection could be met by maintaining that in (1) ‘to know’ designates a complex relation along the lines of being in a state of knowledge having as content . Is the theory safe, then? The aim of this paper is to show that a new problem for the theory arises if we consider some clauses other than ‘that’‐clauses.

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