Knowledge in Context

Knowledge in Context

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My aim in this paper is to motivate and defend a version of epistemic contextualism; a version, that is, of what came to be called attributor or ascriber contextualism.I will begin by outlining, in the first part, what I take to be the basic idea of and motivation behind the version of epistemic contextualism that I favor.In the second part, a couple of examples will be presented in order to illustrate the contextualist point.Since epistemic (ascriber) contextualists commonly claim that knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive, the third part of the here paper will be concerned with the phenomenon of context-sensitivity at a more general level.A more detailed inquiry into the context-sensitivity natural language expressions exhibit will prove helpful in order to counter the objection that postulating context-sensitivity in the case of knowledge ascriptions is an ad-hoc-maneuver.

Given that epistemic contextualism is partly an epistemological thesis, party a linguistic thesis, the remainder of the paper will be devoted to the question of how to semantically model the kind of context-sensitivity exhibited by knowledge ascriptions.The upshot will be that Neuw Rebel Skinny Eternal Black Jeans there are two differ-ent ways of semantically accommodating the context-sensitivity at issue.Both call for a more or less drastic departure from epistemological and semantic orthodoxy.