• Devoted solely to the topic of cross-linguistic considerations in epistemology
• Clearly indicates that there are unneglectable cross-linguistic differences in epistemic terms
• Rather than Anglophone philosophers speaking in place of philosophers in the rest of the world, this volume lets them directly give their own voice.

 
Today the use of English is dominant, and even epistemologists in the rest of the world use English, using know. But why, and to what extent can this be justified? As the first volume ever to be dedicated solely to this topic, the papers collected here will contribute to this important topic and in epistemology in general.Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Even today, many epistemologists, including contextualists and subject-sensitive invariantists are concerned with the truth conditions of " is false, deviant, etc. in that situation. 
 
However, English is just one of over 6000 languages spoken around the world, and is the native language of less than 6% of the world's population. When Western epistemology first emerged, in ancient Greece, English did not even exist. So why should we think that facts about the English word " have important implications for epistemology? Are the properties of the English word The papers collected here discuss these questions and related issues, and aim to contribute to this important topic and epistemology in general.