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    Kvanvig's epistemic indexical reading entails that 'unkno... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even if Fitch's conjunction is an indexical expression, there is no reason to think it is non-rigid

    Kvanvig's epistemic indexical reading entails that 'unknown' picks out different propositions relative to different epistemic communities or times.

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    • 1.Epistemic states vary across communities, so what counts as 'unknown' depends on collective knowledge standards.
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    • 2.Scientific 'unknowns' differ between 1900 and 2024, suggesting temporal relativity of the unknown predicate.
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    • 3.Indexicals like 'I' and 'here' are context-sensitive; epistemic terms should follow similar patterns.
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    • 1.Facts about objective reality don't change when epistemic communities change their knowledge; propositions track facts.
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    • 2.If 'unknown' is indexical, we couldn't meaningfully compare past and present ignorance across epistemic shifts.
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    • 3.Indexicality applies to reference frames (speaker, time, place), not to semantic properties of predicates themselves.
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