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Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions
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This article is published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.The article was published on 1992-11-01. It has received 578 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contextualism & Contemporary philosophy.read more
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Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About
TL;DR: Supportive reasons as mentioned in this paper is a normative evaluation of an assertion that is sensitive to the context of the assertion and shifts from context to context, based on a theoretical distinction between the norm of a practice and its goal.
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Meta-Epistemic Defeat
TL;DR: An account of meta-epistemic defeaters—distinct from traditional (first-order) epistemic Defeaters—is motivated and defended, drawing from case studies involving epistemic error-theory and epistemic relativism.
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In Conversation with the Skeptic: Contextualism and the Raising of Standards
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of factivity in the context of contextualist answers to skepticism is discussed, and it is argued that the contextualist position is not possible to state properly unless we know in the theoretical context that skeptical hypotheses do not hold.
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Deductive Cogency, Understanding, and Acceptance
TL;DR: This paper proposes that Deductive Cogency applies to the attitude of treating propositions as given in the context of attempting to understand a given phenomenon, and argues that this simultaneously accounts for the plausibility of the considerations in favor of DeductiveCogency and avoids the problematic consequences of the preface paradox.
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Internalist Deflationism: On the Limits of Ontological Investigation
TL;DR: In this article, the notion of (un)saturation has been formalized in terms of functions of type, which are functions that map domain objects to domain objects of type.