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All the ideas for 'Contextualist Solutions to Scepticism', 'Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics' and 'No Understanding without Explanation'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens]

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We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens]

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Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

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Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical [Schiffer,S]

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The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means [Schiffer,S]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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'Water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, with different intensions in different worlds [Chalmers, by Sider]