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    It is not the case that The CP-based argument for Cartesian Skepticism is sound when produced in heightened-scrutiny contexts

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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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    • 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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