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    It is not the case that There is no single proposition expressed by the sentences used in the CP-based argument for Cartesian Skepticism

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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