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It seems that everyone with an epistemological axe to grind has used language as a grindstone. Only fairly recently, though, has the question of language itself as a type of knowledge rather than as an instrument for expressing knowledge been brought to the fore. It is now more and more widely accepted that linguistics is the study of knowledge of a certain type, and a rather special type at that, and that therefore it belongs either to psychology or to epistemology or to both.
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Sinclair, H. (1976). Epistemology and the Study of Language. In: Inhelder, B., Chipman, H.H., Zwingmann, C. (eds) Piaget and His School. Springer Study Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46323-5_15
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