Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Identity, Essence and Indiscernibility' and 'Contextualism Contested (and reply)'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
A statue is essentially the statue, but its lump is not essentially a statue, so statue isn't lump [Yablo, by Rocca]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
People begin to doubt whether they 'know' when the answer becomes more significant [Conee]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism
Maybe knowledge has fixed standards (high, but attainable), although people apply contextual standards [Conee]
Maybe low knowledge standards are loose talk; people will deny that it is 'really and truly' knowledge [Conee]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention
By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]