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Title of Journal: Philosophia
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Authors: Patricia Hanna
Publish Date: 2006/11/10
Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 267-285
Abstract
The dominant view of the status of knowledge of language is that it is theoretical or what Gilbert Ryle called knowledgethat Defenders of this thesis may differ among themselves over the precise nature of the knowledge which underlies language as for example Michael Dummett and Noam Chomsky differ over the issue of unconscious knowledge however they all agree that acquisition understanding and use of language require that the speaker have access to a theory of language In this paper I argue that this view is mistaken Knowledge of language is properly seen as practical knowledge knowledgehow My target is Michael Dummett’s treatment of theory of meaning in The Seas of Language If my argument goes through underlying assumptions about the nature of cognition as computational must be adjusted to allow for other forms of knowledge which are arguably more basic and which underlie knowledgethat
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