“What Do I Know When I Know a Language?”
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“What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” is a philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that explores the nature of linguistic knowledge and what it means to understand a language.
All labels observed (1)
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| “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11365949 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” Context triple: [Truth and Other Enigmas, hasPart, “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?”]
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A.
On Language
On Language is a popular collection of William Safire’s witty and insightful columns exploring usage, grammar, and the evolution of the English language.
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B.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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History and the Testimony of Language
"History and the Testimony of Language" is a scholarly work by Christopher Ehret that uses comparative historical linguistics to reconstruct aspects of early human history, cultures, and migrations, particularly in Africa.
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D.
Foundations of Language
Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
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E.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology is a foundational linguistics book that systematically compares the structures of the world’s languages to identify cross-linguistic patterns and constraints.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” Target entity description: “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” is a philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that explores the nature of linguistic knowledge and what it means to understand a language.
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A.
On Language
On Language is a popular collection of William Safire’s witty and insightful columns exploring usage, grammar, and the evolution of the English language.
-
B.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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C.
History and the Testimony of Language
"History and the Testimony of Language" is a scholarly work by Christopher Ehret that uses comparative historical linguistics to reconstruct aspects of early human history, cultures, and migrations, particularly in Africa.
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D.
Foundations of Language
Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
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E.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology is a foundational linguistics book that systematically compares the structures of the world’s languages to identify cross-linguistic patterns and constraints.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic article
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philosophical essay ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
discussions of linguistic competence
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philosophical logic ⓘ theory of meaning debates ⓘ |
| author | Michael Dummett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citedIn |
literature on knowledge-how and knowledge-that
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studies of rule-following and meaning ⓘ works on semantic competence ⓘ |
| explores |
the cognitive status of semantic theory
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the kind of knowledge speakers have of their language ⓘ the nature of understanding sentences ⓘ the relation between meaning and use ⓘ what it is to know a language ⓘ whether linguistic knowledge is tacit knowledge of rules ⓘ |
| field |
cognitive science
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linguistics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorPosition |
knowledge of a language is not merely behavioral disposition
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semantic theory should reflect speakers’ understanding ⓘ understanding a language involves grasp of meaning-theoretic principles ⓘ |
| hasForm | essay ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
anti-psychologistic view of meaning
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realist vs anti-realist debates about meaning ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalIssue |
epistemology of language
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nature of understanding ⓘ relationship between semantics and psychology ⓘ status of semantic rules ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on semantic competence in linguistics
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discussions of tacit knowledge in cognitive science ⓘ later work in philosophy of language ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gottlob Frege
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Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ ordinary language philosophy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
knowledge-how vs knowledge-that
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linguistic knowledge ⓘ meaning and use ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ rule-following in language ⓘ semantic competence ⓘ theory of meaning ⓘ understanding a language ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” Description of subject: “What Do I Know When I Know a Language?” is a philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that explores the nature of linguistic knowledge and what it means to understand a language.
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