6.2 Ordinary Language

Keywords: meaning, word, knew, sure, saying, mistaken, davidson, statement, jones, statements, mean, words, said, language, mistake

Number of articles: 73
Weighted number of articles: 81.69946

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ordinary language each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.06, and the median value is 1. It reaches a peak value of 6 in 1971, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.13: Raw number of articles in topic 2, ordinary language.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ordinary language each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.17, and the median value is 0.89. It reaches a peak value of 5.56 in 1971, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.14: Weighted number of articles in topic 2, ordinary language.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ordinary language each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.3%, and the median value is 0.2%. It reaches a peak value of 1.2% in 1971, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.15: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 2, ordinary language.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ordinary language each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 8.7%, and the median value is 4.2%. It reaches a peak value of 54.2% in 1953, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.16: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 2, ordinary language.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Jonathan Harrison, 1968, “Unfulfilled Conditionals and the Truth of Their Constituents,” Mind 77:372–82.
  2. Norman Malcolm, 1954, “On Knowledge and Belief,” Analysis 14:94–8.
  3. Jonathan Harrison, 1963, “Does Knowing Imply Believing?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 13:322–32.
  4. Mark Crimmins, 1992, “I Falsely Believe that P,” Analysis 52:191–1.
  5. Alan R. White, 1957, “On Claiming to Know,” Philosophical Review 66:180–92.
  6. Norman Malcolm, 1952, “Knowledge and Belief,” Mind 61:178–89.
  7. Richard Taylor, 1954, “Rejoinder to Mr. Malcolm,” Analysis 14:98–9.
  8. A. M. Maciver and Robert Ammerman, 1956, “Report on Analysis”Problem” No. 8,” Analysis 17:25–32.
  9. Alfred Sidgwick, 1934, “The Meaning of Statements,” Analysis 1:46–7.
  10. Jonathan Harrison, 1974, “Mr. Gower on Conditionals,” Mind 83:103–5.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Keith Derose, 1991, “Epistemic Possibilities,” Philosophical Review 100:581–605. (0.5163541)