Epistemic Contextualism
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[Revised entry by Patrick Rysiew on August 12, 2026.
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Epistemic Contextualism (EC) is a recent and hotly debated position. EC is roughly the view that what is expressed by a knowledge attribution - a claim to the effect that S "knows" that p - depends partly on something in the context of the attributor, and hence the view is often called 'attributor contextualism'. Because what such an utterance says is context-dependent, so too is whether the a
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Epistemic Contextualism (EC) is a recent and hotly debated position. EC is roughly the view that what is expressed by a knowledge attribution - a claim to the effect that S "knows" that p - depends partly on something in the context of the attributor, and hence the view is often called 'attributor contextualism'. Because what such an utterance says is context-dependent, so too is whether the a
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