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Contextualism and Skepticism
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Does the contextualist seek to dissolve disputes over skepticism in such a way that all parties to them come out being right? And does she use a “perfectly general strategy” for doing so? Is she ignoring the traditional epistemological topic of whether we really know things, instead addressing how the word “know” is or should be used? Is she engaged in philosophy of language instead of epistemology? Is she addressing the more important types of skeptic? Are key aspects of her position inexpressible, by her own lights? Is she subject to a “factivity problem”? These and other questions are answered in this chapter, as the contextualist aspects of the solution to skepticism from Chapter 1 are carefully explained and defended from objections.
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Does the contextualist seek to dissolve disputes over skepticism in such a way that all parties to them come out being right? And does she use a “perfectly general strategy” for doing so? Is she ignoring the traditional epistemological topic of whether we really know things, instead addressing how the word “know” is or should be used? Is she engaged in philosophy of language instead of epistemology? Is she addressing the more important types of skeptic? Are key aspects of her position inexpressible, by her own lights? Is she subject to a “factivity problem”? These and other questions are answered in this chapter, as the contextualist aspects of the solution to skepticism from Chapter 1 are carefully explained and defended from objections.
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