Are There Understanding-Assent Links?

It is commonly held that there are internal links between understanding and assent such that being semantically competent with an expression requires accepting certain sentences as true. The paper discusses a recent challenge to this conception of semantic competence, posed by Timothy Williamson (20...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Åsa Wikforss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2010-11-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v5i0.289