On the Epistemology of Language
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 44, Issue 4, PP. 677 - 696.
By Cheng-hung Tsai
Epistemology of language, a branch of both epistemology and the
philosophy of language, asks what knowledge of language consists in. In
this paper, I argue that such an inquiry is a pointless enterprise due
to its being based upon the incorrect assumption that linguistic
competence requires knowledge of language. However, I do not think the
phenomenon of knowledge of language is trivial. I propose a
virtue-theoretic account of linguistic competence, and then explain the
phenomenon from a virtue-semantic point of view.
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