Disjunctivism, contextualism and the sceptical aporia

摘要

We know things that entail things we apparently cannot come to know. This is a problem for those of us who trust that knowledge is closed under entailment. In the paper I discuss the solutions to this problem offered by epistemic disjunctivism and contextualism. The contention is that neither of these theories has the resources to deal satisfactory with the problem. Keywords Epistemology - Scepticism - Closure - Transmission - Disjunctivism - Contextualism - Knowledge - Evidence