<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>According to David Lewis’ contextualist analysis of knowledge, there can be contexts in which a subject counts as knowing a proposition just because every possibility that this proposition might be false is irrelevant in those contexts. In this paper I argue that, in some cases at least, Lewis’ analysis results in granting people non-evidentially based knowledge of ordinary contingent truths which, intuitively, cannot be known but on the basis of appropriate evidence.</p></abstract>

According to David Lewis’ contextualist analysis of knowledge, there can be contexts in which a subject counts as knowing a proposition just because every possibility that this proposition might be false is irrelevant in those contexts. In this paper I argue that, in some cases at least, Lewis’ analysis results in granting people non-evidentially based knowledge of ordinary contingent truths which, intuitively, cannot be known but on the basis of appropriate evidence.

Relevant Alternatives Contextualism and Ordinary Contingent Knowledge

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According to David Lewis’ contextualist analysis of knowledge, there can be contexts in which a subject counts as knowing a proposition just because every...

Relevant Alternatives Contextualism and Ordinary Contingent Knowledge

Pubblicato online: 31 dic 2018

Pagine: 281 - 294

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2008-0002

© 2008 Franck Lihoreau, published by Sciendo

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