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EPISTEMIC CONTEXT: A JUSTIFIABILITY THEORY OF RELEVANCE (pages 145-156)

Wai Lok CHEUNG ABSTRACT: Lewis’ contextualism entails that when there are too many epistemic possibilities in an epistemic context, epistemic infallibility is incompatible with knowledge given a residue of such alternatives not ruled out by evidence. I restrict certainty with epistemic context through epistemic relevance. Epistemically irrelevant alternatives do not belong to the epistemic context, while certainty of the fact …

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