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    Challenges→Knowledge-attributions are context-sensitive

    The inference from 'explanatory talk is context-sensitive' to 'knowledge-talk is context-sensitive' commits a fallacy of division, since a genus having a property does not entail every species inherits it.

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    • 1.Explanations and knowledge are fundamentally different kinds of speech acts with distinct logical structures and success conditions.
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    • 2.Context-sensitivity in explanations concerns which factors are salient; knowledge requires determinate truth-conditions independent of context.
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    • 3.Counterexample: 'tall' is context-sensitive but 'human' (a species of mammal) is not, supporting that genus properties don't transfer.
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    • 1.Knowledge fundamentally consists in justified true belief involving explanatory understanding, making knowledge partly constitutive of explanation.
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    • 2.If context shapes which explanations count as adequate, context equally determines what justifies belief—the justification relation itself shifts.
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    • 3.The fallacy of division applies to distributions of intrinsic properties; context-sensitivity is relational and transmits through constitutive links.
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    Key Terms

    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    context-sensitive(Used to describe terms like 'I' and 'left' whose reference shifts with the context of use.)
    A term whose semantic value or referent varies depending on features of the context of utterance, such as the identity or orientation of the speaker.
    fallacy of division(as used in logic)
    A logical error where you assume that because a whole group has a property, each individual member must have that same property.
    genus(Aristotle's metaphysical classification scheme in the Metaphysics)
    A kind that must be differentiated by some differentia that falls outside that genus.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    species(Bacon's multiplicatio specierum theory adapted to epistemology by Crathorn)
    A representative likeness of an external thing, transmitted causally through a medium; in Crathorn's usage, a material mental quality in the mind that has the same nature as the external thing it represents.

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