Do "knowledge attributions" involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?

Behav Brain Sci. 2021 Nov 19:44:e149. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20001594.

Abstract

The authors distinguish knowledge and belief attributions, emphasizing the role of the former in mental-state attribution. This does not, however, warrant diminishing interest in the latter. Knowledge attributions may not entail mental-state attributions or metarepresentations. Even if they do, the proposed features are insufficient to distinguish them from belief attributions, demanding that we first understand each underlying representation.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Knowledge*
  • Social Perception*