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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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