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Knowing‐ Wh and Embedded Questions
Author(s) -
Parent T.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12104
Subject(s) - contextualism , proposition , epistemology , context (archaeology) , contrast (vision) , phenomenon , intellectualism , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology
Do you know who you are? If the question seems unclear, it might owe to the notion of ‘knowing‐ wh ’ (knowing‐who, knowing‐what, knowing‐when, etc.). Such knowledge contrasts with ‘knowing‐that’, the more familiar topic of epistemologists. But these days, knowing‐ wh is receiving more attention than ever, and here we will survey three current debates on the nature of knowing‐ wh . These debates concern, respectively, (1) whether all knowing‐ wh is reducible to knowing‐that (‘generalized intellectualism’), (2) whether all knowing‐ wh is relativized to a contrast proposition (‘contrastivism about knowing‐ wh ’), and (3) whether the context‐sensitivity of knowing‐ wh is a semantic or purely pragmatic phenomenon (‘contextualism vs. invariantism about knowing‐ wh ’).