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| Paper IPM / Philosophy / 12682 |
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Epistemic contextualism is a thesis about truth conditions of knowledge ascribed to
sentences such as �??S knows that p�?� and �??S does not know that p�?�. According to con-
textualists it is the speaker�??s context �?? the one attributing knowledge �?? that is perti-
nent to the truth conditions and truth value of knowledge attributions. Thus, in one
context a speaker might say �??S knows p�?� while in another context another he/she
might say �??S does not know p�?� without any contradiction involved. Cohen�??s version
of contextualism takes justification, rather than knowledge, to come in degrees. I
shall argue that Cohen�??s contextualist theory of justification suffers from several ma-
jor problems.
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