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Single Idea 19558

[from 'Contextualism Defended (and reply)' by Stewart Cohen, in 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism ]

Full Idea

One robust feature of our intuitions about whether we know things is that they tend to vacillate.

Gist of Idea

Our own intuitions about whether we know tend to vacillate

Source

Stewart Cohen (Contextualism Defended (and reply) [2005], 1)

Book Reference

'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.69


A Reaction

This strikes me as important. If we were tacit invariantists (Idea 19557) we should be able to ask ourselves whether we 'really and truly' know various things, but we can't decide. I know lots about Nietzsche in a pub, and very little in a university.

Related Idea

Idea 19557 Maybe low knowledge standards are loose talk; people will deny that it is 'really and truly' knowledge [Conee]