Epistemic contextualism can be stated properly
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Epistemic contextualism can be stated properly
It has been argued that epistemic contextualism faces the so-called factivity problem and hence cannot be stated properly. The basic idea behind this charge is that contextualists supposedly have to say, on the one hand, that knowledge ascribing sentences like “S knows that S has hands” are true when used in ordinary contexts while, on the other hand, they are not true by the standard of their ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0459-5