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    It is not the case that Invariantist semantics holds that 'knows' expresses a single, context-independent relation between an agent, proposition, and evidential standard.

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    • 1.High-stakes contexts genuinely shift whether we attribute knowledge (bank case), not merely our reporting standards.
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    • 2.Quantifiers, modals, and adjectives show context-sensitivity is pervasive in natural language, so 'knows' likely does too.
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    • 3.A single evidential standard cannot explain why experts and lay speakers attribute knowledge differently for identical cases.
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    • 1.Knowledge attributions succeed across contexts without speakers adjusting meaning, suggesting 'knows' has stable semantic content.
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    • 2.Context-independent semantics avoids the problem of infinite regress when explaining what 'context' itself means or determines.
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    • 3.If 'knows' varied with context, disagreements about knowledge would be merely verbal rather than substantive disagreements.
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