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    It is not the case that Explanatory talk is context-sensitive, which affects how we understand the 'because' in knowledge attributions

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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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    • 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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