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Epistemological contextualism /
Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Colección: | Grazer philosophische Studien ;
69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist theories of knowledge it might be the case that a particular subject knows a proposition in one context but fails to know that same proposition in another context-while the only thing that has changed is the context.Of the extant contextualist theories of knowledge, attributer contextualism (that is, t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 142379141X 9781423791416 9789042016279 9042016272 |
| ISSN: | 0165-9227 ; |