IV—Knowledge of Meaning

Author: Weiss B.

Source: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 104, Number 1, September 2003 , pp. 75-92(18)

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Abstract:

The paper is sympathetic to the idea that speakers have implicit knowledge of the semantics of sub-sentential elements of language, loosely, of words. Implicit knowledge is knowledge which the subject need not be capable of articulating yet which is a genuine propositional attitude and it is to be contrasted with tacit knowledge which refers to an information-bearing state which, however, is not a genuine propositional attitude. I begin by defending the implicit knowledge conception of speakers' knowledge of the meanings of words from a challenge articulated by Evans and then go on the offensive against positions which attempt to replace the notion of implicit knowledge in semantic theory by that of tacit knowledge.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9264.t01-1-00004

Affiliations: 1: University of Cape Town, South Africa

Publication date: 2003-09-01