Recognition

This paper offers an account of recognition and its relation to knowledge. One important observation is that while ‘know’ is a stative verb, ‘recognize’ is an achievement verb. A second is that ‘recognize’ is knowledge entailing, both when combined with a complementizer phrase and when combined with...

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Published in:Erkenntnis 2024-04, Vol.89 (4), p.1617-1628
Main Author: Dietz, Christina H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Education
Epistemology
Ethics
Knowledge
Logic
Ontology
Original Research
Philosophers
Philosophy
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Summary:This paper offers an account of recognition and its relation to knowledge. One important observation is that while ‘know’ is a stative verb, ‘recognize’ is an achievement verb. A second is that ‘recognize’ is knowledge entailing, both when combined with a complementizer phrase and when combined with a noun phrase. The behavior of the latter kind of construction is particularly subtle and is the main focus of this paper. This paper ends with an interesting puzzle about object recognition.
ISSN:0165-0106
1572-8420
DOI:10.1007/s10670-022-00598-8