Inquisitive knowledge attribution and the Gettier problem. Uegaki, W. In Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Weidmann-Sassoon, G., Schulz, K., & Westera, M., editors, Logic, Language, and Meaning. Selected papers from the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, pages 52–61, Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. Springer.
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A disjunctive belief cannot be described as knowledge if the subject does not justifiably believe a true disjunct, even if the whole disjunctive belief is true and justified (Gettier 1963). This phenomenon is problematic if the verb know semantically operates on a (classical) proposition, as standardly assumed. In this paper, I offer a solution to this problem using Inquisitive Semantics, arguing that know operates on the set of alternative possibilities expressed by its complement. It will also be shown that the proposed semantics for know provides a novel account of its compatibility with both declarative and interrogative complements.
@inproceedings{Uegaki:12,
	abstract = {A disjunctive belief cannot be described as knowledge if the subject does not justifiably believe a true disjunct, even if the whole disjunctive belief is true and justified (Gettier 1963). This phenomenon is problematic if the verb know semantically operates on a (classical) proposition, as standardly assumed. In this paper, I offer a solution to this problem using Inquisitive Semantics, arguing that know operates on the set of alternative possibilities expressed by its complement. It will also be shown that the proposed semantics for know provides a novel account of its compatibility with both declarative and interrogative complements.},
	address = {Berlin Heidelberg},
	author = {Wataru Uegaki},
	booktitle = {Logic, Language, and Meaning. Selected papers from the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium},
	date-added = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_6},
	editor = {Maria Aloni and Vadim Kimmelman and Floris Roelofsen and Galit Weidmann-Sassoon and Katrin Schulz and Matthijs Westera},
	pages = {52--61},
	publisher = {Springer},
	title = {Inquisitive knowledge attribution and the {Gettier} problem},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_6},
	year = {2012},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_6},
	Bdsk-Url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_6}}

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