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    There is no single proposition expressed by the sentences used in the CP-based argument for Cartesian Skepticism

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    • 1.According to contextualism, the proposition expressed by a sentence varies with the context of utterance
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    • 2.The sentences in the CP-based argument can be uttered in both everyday and heightened-scrutiny contexts, yielding different truth values
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    • 1.Invariantist semantics holds that 'knows' expresses a single, context-independent relation between an agent, proposition, and evidential standard.
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    • 2.If 'knows' is semantically invariant, the CP-argument's premises express the same propositions across all contexts, undermining the contextualist dissolution.
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    • 3.Hawthorne and Stanley's knowledge-action principles provide independent empirical motivation for invariantism over contextualism about knowledge attributions.
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    • 1.Even granting contextualism, the skeptical argument can be reconstructed entirely within a single elevated-scrutiny context, preserving propositional uniformity.
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    • 2.DeRose himself acknowledges that within a skeptical context, the CP-argument's premises are uniformly true, which reinstates the skeptical conclusion locally rather than dissolving it.
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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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