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    Explanatory talk is context-sensitive, which affects how we understand the 'because' in knowledge attributions

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    • 1.To know is to believe the truth because of one's intellectual virtue or ability
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    • 2.Abnormal features tend to be explanatorily salient in causal explanations
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    • 3.Our interests and purposes single out certain features as especially relevant in explanations
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    • 1.Grice's Cooperative Principle explains why explanatory talk appears context-sensitive without requiring semantic context-sensitivity in the 'because' relation itself.
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    • 2.Pragmatic variation in how we articulate causal explanations is compatible with a single, stable causal-metaphysical relation grounding knowledge attributions.
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    • 3.Conflating the pragmatics of explanation with its semantics commits the use-mention error Frege warned against in distinguishing sense from assertion conditions.
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    • 1.Knowledge attributions track mind-independent truth conditions, not context-relative explanatory salience (Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits).
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    • 2.If 'because' in 'S knows p because of virtue' were context-sensitive, knowledge would collapse into a relativized epistemic relation, undermining its factive character.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Greco (2004, 2008) defends a version of contextualism, what he calls “virtue contextualism”. Virtue contextualism emerges from the basic idea, mentioned above, that to know is to believe the truth because of your intellectual virtue or ability. When we say “because of your intellectual virtue or ability”, how are we to understand “because”? In general, explanatory talk is context-sensitive. It is context-sensitive in two primary ways. First, abnormal features tend to be explanatorily salient. Th
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