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

    If eavesdropper intuitions—the primary evidence for cross-context truth-value shifts—are explicable within a sophisticated contextualism, the puzzle loses its force as an argument against contextualism.

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    Cross-context truth-value shifts(as used in philosophy of language)
    The idea that a single sentence could be true in one situation but false in another situation (like how 'it's raining' is true in London but false in Los Angeles at the same moment).
    Eavesdropper intuitions(as used in philosophy of language)
    Thought experiments where we imagine overhearing a conversation and ask whether what someone said is true or false—philosophers use these to test theories about how meaning works.
    Explicable within(as used in philosophy of language)
    Able to be explained or accounted for by a particular theory or framework.
    Primary evidence(as used in epistemology and argumentation)
    The strongest or most direct proof that supports a particular claim or theory.
    The puzzle loses its force as an argument

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    contextualism(Presented as a rival to relativism for handling taste predicates)
    A semantic view on which the truth conditions of an utterance are determined by features of the context in which the utterance is made, such that two speakers in different contexts may both utter true but contextually indexed propositions

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