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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 'might p' expresses a proposition about what is compatible with a contextually-fixed body of knowledge, truth-value shifts across contexts reflect distinct propositions, not instability in a single proposition.

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    Key Terms

    Compatible with(as used in logic and philosophy generally)
    Able to exist or be true at the same time without contradicting each other. Two ideas are compatible if one doesn't rule out the other.
    contextually-fixed body of knowledge(as used in epistemology and semantics)
    The set of facts and information that are assumed to be true in a particular situation or conversation.
    distinct propositions(as used in logic and semantics)
    Different statements or claims; separate ideas that are not the same thing.
    instability in a single proposition(as used in logic)
    The idea that one statement could be both true and false at the same time, which would make it unreliable or contradictory.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)

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    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
    shifts across contexts(as used in philosophy of language)
    Changes depending on the situation or setting; varies from one circumstance to another.
    truth-value(logic and philosophy of language)
    Whether a statement is true or false. Two statements can have different truth-values if one is true and the other is false.

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