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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Epistemic vs. doxastic: the case of the turkey

There is this section in Korta's & Perry's entry for 'pragmatics' in their online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It relates to J on 'pavo'. As J notes, the 'pavo' (turkey) has nothing to do with Turkey OR the peacock. Still, since it's beliefs that count, not knowledge -- the moral is that in language, things mostly work via what J calls a 'linguistic error'! Or not!

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