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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"epistemic state"”.
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Children’s development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker’s epistemic state
… – involves reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state. This thesis examines children’s development of implicature understanding. It seeks to address the question of what the relationship is in development between quantity, relevance and manner implicatures; whether word learning by …
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A Critical Examination Of Understanding’s Characteristics: Why, In A Sense, Understanding Is Unique
Is understanding a unique kind of epistemic state or simply another word for knowledge? Recently, there is a dispute in the literature between those, non-reductionists, who argue that we cannot reduce understanding to knowledge. Sliwa and Khalifa, two reductionists, on the other hand, argue that …
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Testimony Without Belief
… that when speakers stand in the right sort of epistemic relation to the statements they issue they properly testify. My project carves out a position between these two views. I argue that speakers need not believe p, but speakers must be in some appropriate epistemic state with respect to p in …
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Cooperative Intentions and Epistemic Reasoning in Scalar Implicature Derivation: A Developmental Perspective
… friends are curly, the listener will enrich the statement and assume that not all of them are. The first part of the thesis is focused on scalar implicature derivation during adulthood, to delineate the role of understanding communicative intention and reasoning about people’s epistemic state in …
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A conditional model of abduction
… of abduction based on the revision of the epistemic state of a program or agent. Abductive frameworks like Theorist, and consistency based diagnosis (today's "canonical" frameworks for diagnosis) are shown to be captured in our work.
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Moral expertise and moral education : a Socratic account
… moral knowledge or moral expertise-a complex epistemic state that integrates practical knowledge, theoretical knowledge, and self-knowledge. This account unifies several seemingly disparate epistemological threads that run through Plato's Socratic dialogues, it helps us resolve other …