Do “knowledge attributions” involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?

The authors distinguish knowledge and belief attributions, emphasizing the role of the former in mental-state attribution. This does not, however, warrant diminishing interest in the latter. Knowledge attributions may not entail mental-state attributions or metarepresentations. Even if they do, the...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2021-11, Vol.44, p.e149-e149, Article e149
Hauptverfasser: Dudley, Rachel, Kovács, Ágnes Melinda
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The authors distinguish knowledge and belief attributions, emphasizing the role of the former in mental-state attribution. This does not, however, warrant diminishing interest in the latter. Knowledge attributions may not entail mental-state attributions or metarepresentations. Even if they do, the proposed features are insufficient to distinguish them from belief attributions, demanding that we first understand each underlying representation.
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X20001594