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Epistemic Contextualism and the Objectivity of Knowledge

Yang You

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Epistemic contextualism is a great success in solving skepticism and at the same time encounters the challenge of relativism.This article interprets the main component of epistemic contextualism and the argument from closure in skepticism in detail,based on this,emphatically analyses the relation between epistemic contextualism and epistemic relativism.This article stresses and points out that epistemic contextualism is not the same as epistemic relativism,that the use of epistemic contextualism can bring the objectivity of knowledge.

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Epistemic contextualism is a great success in solving skepticism and at the same time encounters the challenge of relativism.This article interprets the main component of epistemic contextualism and the argument from closure in skepticism in detail,based on this,emphatically analyses the relation between epistemic contextualism and epistemic relativism.This article stresses and points out that epistemic contextualism is not the same as epistemic relativism,that the use of epistemic contextualism can bring the objectivity of knowledge.

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Epistemic contextualism is a great success in solving skepticism and at the same time encounters the challenge of relativism.This article interprets the main component of epistemic contextualism and the argument from closure in skepticism in detail,based on this,emphatically analyses the relation between epistemic contextualism and epistemic relativism.This article stresses and points out that epistemic contextualism is not the same as epistemic relativism,that the use of epistemic contextualism can bring the objectivity of knowledge.

Key concepts: Contextualism, Relativism, Skepticism, Epistemology, Objectivity (philosophy), Philosophy, Linguistics, Interpretation (philosophy)

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