Learning from Words

Learning from Words
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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9780199219162
ISBN-13 : 0199219168
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Book Synopsis Learning from Words by : Jennifer Lackey

Download or read book Learning from Words written by Jennifer Lackey and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.


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