Add to ORKGHow must knowledge be formed, if made in the image of assertion? That is, given that knowledge plays the normative role of governing what one may assert, what can be inferred about the structure of the knowledge relation from this role? I will argue that what one may assert is sensitive to the question under discussion, and conclude that what one knows must be relative to a question. In short, knowledge in the image of assertion is question-relative knowledge. 1. Assertion How must knowledge be formed, if made in the image of assertion? It will prove useful to begin with a discussion of what assertion does. For I am after the role that knowledge plays in the norms of assertion, and these norms are licenses to do what assertion does. I will ...