Knowledge in the image of assertion

Philosophical Issues 18 (1):1-19 (2008)
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Abstract

How must knowledge be formed, if made in the image of assertion? That is, given that knowledge plays the normative role of governing what one may assert, what can be inferred about the structure of the knowledge relation from this role? I will argue that what one may assert is sensitive to the question under discussion, and conclude that what one knows must be relative to a question. In short, knowledge in the image of assertion is question-relative knowledge

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Jonathan Schaffer
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