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    To know is to believe the truth because of one's intellec... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Explanatory talk is context-sensitive, which affects how we understand the 'because' in knowledge attributions

    To know is to believe the truth because of one's intellectual virtue or ability

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    Greco (2004, 2008) defends a version of contextualism, what he calls “virtue contextualism”. Virtue contextualism emerges from the basic idea, mentioned above, that to know is to believe the truth because of your intellectual virtue or ability. When we say “because of your intellectual virtue or ability”, how are we to understand “because”? In general, explanatory talk is context-sensitive. It is context-sensitive in two primary ways. First, abnormal features tend to be explanatorily salient. Th

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