Relevant alternatives contextualism and ordinary contingent knowledge

• Autores: Franck Lihoreau
• Localización: Disputatio, ISSN-e 0873-626X, Vol. 2, Nº. 24, 2008, págs. 1-14
• Idioma: inglés
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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 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.