Epistemological Contextualism: A Semantic Perspective

In P. Bouquet V. Akman, Modeling and Using Context. Springer. pp. 41--54 (2001)
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Abstract

According to epistemological contextualism, a sentence of the form "S knows that p" doesn't express a complete proposition. Different utterances of the sentence, in different contexts, can express different propositions: "know" is context-dependent. This paper deals with the semantic contextualist thesis grounding epistemological contextualism. We examine various kinds of linguistic context dependence, which could be relevant to epistemological contextualism: ambiguity, ellipsis, indexicality, vagueness of scalar predicates, dependence on standards of precision. We argue that only an accurate analysis of the different varieties of context sensitivity secures us a better understanding and a clearer evaluation of the contextualist approach.

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original Vassallo, Nicla (2001) "Il contestualismo epistemologico". Filosofia 52(1):61-88

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Claudia Bianchi
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan)
Nicla Vassallo
Università degli Studi di Genova

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