Abstract

EZCURDIA, Maite. Conocimiento del lenguaje y actitudes de aceptación. Acta poét [online]. 2004, vol.25, n.2, pp.255-301. ISSN 2448-735X.

In this paper I purport to defend the claim that linguistic competence is constituted by what I call 'subdoxastic acceptance attitudes'. These are mental cognitive states with a conceptual content, but which are unconscious in a deep way. My first task is to characterize these acceptance attitudes and show how they could figure in explanations of linguistic understanding and production. Secondly, I argue that not only beliefs can constitute knowledge, leaving open the possibility that subdoxastic acceptance attitudes themselves also be states of knowledge. And thirdly, I show how what I take to be the main obstacle for subdoxastic acceptance attitudes to be states of knowledge when constituting linguistic competence stems from a particular conception of language and not from the attitudes themselves.

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