creators_name: Mate, Davide
creators_name: Tirassa, Maurizio
creators_id: maurizio.tirassa@unito.it
editors_name: Cummings, Louise
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datestamp: 2010-07-29 01:51:58
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title: Knowledge
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-ani-cog
subjects: clin-psy
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: evol-psy
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-sci
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
abstract: This is an encyclopedia entry and does not include an abstract.
date: 2010
date_type: published
publication: The pragmatics encyclopedia
publisher: Routledge
pagerange: 239-242
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Mate, Davide and Tirassa, Maurizio  (2010) Knowledge.  [Book Chapter]     
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