 In reply to the objection that use of the disquotational premise (B*) begs the question, Brueckner says that the objector would be right to reject a defense of (B*) that is based on the claim that since I know that I’m a normal speaker of English, I also know (B*). Such a claim would indeed beg the question, Brueckner says. But he goes on to suggest that knowledge of such disquotational facts as (B*) need not be based on knowledge that one is a normal English speaker. Rather, the former kind of knowledge “is simply part of understanding my own language (whatever it is and whatever I am)” (2003: 157).