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Tacit Belief, Semantics and Grammar

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This paper explores speakers' epistemic access to the semanticand syntactic features of sentences of their language. I argue that there is evidence that ceteris paribus, the actual semantic features of sentences of a language are accessible as such by typical speakers of that language.I then explore various linguistic, cognitive, and epistemic consequences of this position.

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Johnson, K. Tacit Belief, Semantics and Grammar. Linguistics and Philosophy 27, 57–91 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:LING.0000010798.94653.d2

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