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- Title
Quantifiers, Knowledge, and Counterfactuals.
- Authors
ICHIKAWA, JONATHAN
- 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.
- Subjects
CONTEXTUALISM (Philosophy); THEORY of knowledge; COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic); PARADOX; LEWIS, David
- Publication
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2011, Vol 82, Issue 2, p287
- ISSN
0031-8205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00427.x