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Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief.

Michael Tomasello
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2021)
More basic than the authors' distinction between knowing and believing is a distinction between knowledge-by-acquaintance (I know John Smith) and propositional knowledge/belief (I know/believe that John Smith lives in Durham). This distinction provides a better account of both the comparative and developmental data.
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