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    Supports→A purely contextualist treatment of epistemic modals is insufficient to explain the puzzle of cross-context truth-value shifts.

    Contextualism dissolves the puzzle by saying that sentences express different propositions relative to different contexts of utterance.

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    But this is puzzling. It is not puzzling that the sentence “The murderer might have been on campus at midnight” could be true when uttered in the first context but false when uttered in the second context; that fact could be accommodated by any number of contextualist treatments of epistemic modals, which would dissolve the puzzle by saying that the sentence expresses different propositions relative to the two contexts. The puzzle is that the truth of the second sentence seems to imply that the

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