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    The CP-based argument for Cartesian Skepticism is sound when produced in heightened-scrutiny contexts

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    • 1.In heightened-scrutiny contexts, CP2 expresses a true proposition
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    • 2.In heightened-scrutiny contexts, the conclusion of the CP-based argument expresses a true proposition
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    • 3.CP1 always expresses a true proposition as long as the context does not change mid-sentence
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    • 1.Contextualist semantics (DeRose, Lewis) entails that 'knows' picks out different relations in different contexts, so skeptical conclusions true in heightened-scrutiny contexts carry no normative weight for ordinary contexts.
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    • 2.If skeptical conclusions are context-relative, the CP-based argument establishes only that knowledge-attribution standards shift, not that we genuinely lack knowledge of the external world.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' establishes that framework propositions like 'I have hands' function as hinges that make doubt intelligible, not as objects of doubt themselves.
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    • 2.If the Cartesian skeptic must presuppose hinge certainties to even formulate CP2 coherently, the heightened-scrutiny context is self-undermining and cannot make CP2 genuinely true.
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    According to contextualism, then, there is no single proposition expressed by the sentences used in the CP-based argument for Cartesian Skepticism. Rather, there are many such propositions. Two interesting ones are the propositions expressed in everyday contexts, where CP2 as well as the conclusion of the argument express false propositions, and those expressed in heightened-scrutiny contexts, where both CP2 as well as the conclusion of the argument express true propositions. CP1 (as well as CP
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