Incomplete understanding of concepts and knowing in part what something is

Burge (1979) famously argued that one can have thoughts involving a concept C even if one’s understanding of C is incomplete. Even though this view has been extremely influential, it has also been taken by critics as less than clear. The aim of this paper is to show that the cases imagined by Burge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: André J. Abath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2020-11-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/70665