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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Knowledge and Presuppositions; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Outline of the Book; 1 Knowledge and Presuppositions; 1.1 Epistemic Contextualism; 1.2 Knowledge and Relevant Alternatives; 1.3 Pragmatic Presuppositions; 1.4 Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism (PEC); 1.5 Concluding Remarks; 2 The Sceptical Puzzle; 2.1 Sceptical Intuitions and Other Data; 2.2 Scepticism in Solitary Contexts; 2.3 Scepticism in Conversational Contexts; 2.4 PEC's Error-theory; 2.5 Epistemological Irrelevance; 2.6 Elusiveness, Ineffability, and Unassertability |
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2.7 Concluding Remarks3 Objections and Replies; 3.1 Solitary Contexts; 3.2 Too Easy Knowledge?; 3.3 Epistemically Legitimate Presuppositions; 3.4 Presupposing vs. Assuming; 3.5 Irrational Sceptics?; 3.6 Known Presuppositions; 3.7 Modal Embeddings and Factivity; 3.8 Concluding Remarks; 4 Linguistic Issues; 4.1 Semantic Blindness; 4.2 Knowledge Norms; 4.3 The Syntax of 'Knowledge'; 4.4 Clarification Techniques; 4.5 Concluding Remarks; 5 Further Puzzles; 5.1 Gettier Cases; 5.2 The Lottery Puzzle; 5.3 Non-Reductionism and Epistemic Resemblance; 5.4 Inductive Knowledge; 5.5 E = K |
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5.6 Concluding Remarks6 Closure and Moorean Reasoning; 6.1 Closure Failure; 6.2 A Problem: Proper Basing; 6.3 Transmission Failure and Entitlement; 6.4 A Contextualist Solution?; 6.5 PEC and Transmission Failure; 6.6 PEC and Moorean Dogmatism; 6.7 Resolving the Moorean Puzzle; 6.8 Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Michael Blome-Tillmann presents an innovative account of epistemic contextualism, based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. He shows how the theory can resolve sceptical paradoxes and puzzles, and illuminate concerns central to epistemology and philosophy of language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 8, 2014) |
| Subject |
Epistemics.
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Presupposition (Logic)
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Contextualism (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Contextualism (Philosophy)
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Epistemics
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Presupposition (Logic)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191766046 |
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0191766046 |
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9780191509551 |
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0191509558 |
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