Quantifiers,Knowledge, and Counterfactuals |
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Authors: | JONATHAN ICHIKAWA |
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Institution: | Arché, University of St Andrews |
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Abstract: | Many of the motivations in favor of contextualism about knowledge apply also to a contextualist approach to counterfactuals. I motivate and articulate such an approach, in terms of the context‐sensitive ‘all cases’, in the spirit of David Lewis’s contextualist view about knowledge. The resulting view explains intuitive data, resolves a puzzle parallel to the skeptical paradox, and renders safety and sensitivity, construed as counterfactuals, necessary conditions on knowledge. |
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