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- Title
INFERENTIALISM AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE.
- Authors
Cogburn, Jon
- Abstract
A central tenet of cognitivism is that knowing how is to be explained in terms of tacitly knowing that a theory is true. By critically examining canonical anti-behaviorist arguments and contemporary appeals to tacit knowledge, I have devised a more explicit characterization in which tacitly known theories must act as justifiers for claims that the tacit knower is capable of explicitly endorsing. In this manner the new account is specifically tied to verbal behavior. In addition, if the analysis is correct then it follows that the scope and nature of cognitivist appeals to tacit knowledge are largely mistaken.
- Subjects
EXPLANATION; TACIT knowledge; CONSCIOUSNESS; THEORY of knowledge; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 2, p503
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article