104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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The Acquisition of Language and the Capacity to Judge
A child's acquisition of language and hence the capacity to judge is made in the context of its ability to take part in characteristic forms of human behaviour. It's essential to this entire process of education that the child begins by trusting the adult, he says. The truth of his judgements is a criterion of his having learned to judge - no question of how the child knows what he judges arises.
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