Recent research suggests that lower-class individuals favor explanations of personal and political outcomes that are oriented to features of the external environment. We extended this work by testing the hypothesis that, as a result, individuals of a lower social class are more empathically accurate in judging the emotions of other people. In three studies, lower-class individuals (compared wit...

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 ...

The nature of ellipsis resolution has long been the topic of a heated discussion in the linguistics literature. Ellipsis is a widespread linguistic phenomenon. I show here that an adequate account of ellipsis will have to make use of context in the sense of previous discourse. “Syntactic” accounts of ellipsis are no way out of this. This will be an argument for contextualists who claim that “wh...

Bioethics must have an intercultural perspective. This is based on three facts: The principles and values around which reflection is made are related to world views and traditions, human beings are cultural beings, and current societies are considerably diverse. Based on this, bioethics will seek an adequate balance between ethical universalism and contextualism. This is a fundamental step for ...

This article aims to assess the validity of two linguistic models context-sensitivity term ?know?: (I) indexical model, according which knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive due an unstable Kaplanian character ?know?, and (II) hidden-indexical that explains context sensitivity ?know? by referring its semantic similarities with gradable adjectives. is structured as follows. Section 1 brief...