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As one distinct approach to clarifying human knowing, J. L. Austin in Other Minds [1946] discusses ‘what sort of thing does actually happen when ordinary people are asked “How do you know?”‘ . Austin bases his analysis of the answers to this question on what will ordinarily be considered proper, meaningful ways of speaking. Thus his approach is empirical, based on evidence available to anyone who understands ordinary human affairs and how one may speak about them. By this approach Austin arrives at a description of what may be said to constitute the conditions of knowing in certain types of situation.
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Naur, P. (1995). J. L. Austin on How One Knows. In: Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8549-1_3
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