Epistemological contextualism /:

Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist the...

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Other Authors: Blaauw, Martijn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Series:Grazer philosophische Studien ; 69.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist theories of knowledge it might be the case that a particular subject knows a proposition in one context but fails to know that same proposition in another context-while the only thing that has changed is the context.Of the extant contextualist theories of knowledge, attributer contextualism (that is, t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:142379141X
9781423791416
9789042016279
9042016272
ISSN:0165-9227 ;

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