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

    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.Knowledge's factive character requires that p is true in all contexts where S knows p; context-sensitivity about 'because' violates this necessity.
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    • 2.If the grounding relation for knowledge varies by context, we cannot distinguish genuine knowledge from mere justified belief across contexts.
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    • 3.Virtue epistemology depends on a stable connection between epistemic agent and truth; relativizing 'because' severs this constitutive link.
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    • 1.Context-sensitivity in explanatory relations ('because') does not affect truth-conditions of 'S knows p'; factivity remains intact.
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    • 2.Many knowledge-constitutive relations (justification, reliability) exhibit context-sensitivity without collapsing knowledge into relativism.
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    • 3.Virtue epistemology can ground knowledge in stable virtues while allowing context to determine which virtues explain knowledge in specific cases.
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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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