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Paper title: "A natural argument for contextualism."</div>
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In the debate between <i>contextualist </i>and <i>invariantist</i> theories of knowledge, linguistic data have been the primary focus. In this paper, however, I come at the debate from a very different angle: I argue that contextualism is a much more
<i>natural </i>theory – it is much better at respecting the <i>objective metaphysical structure of reality</i> – than standard versions of invariantism. From this, I draw some further conclusions: first, contextualism is much better than standard invariantism
at allowing knowledge to have a distinctive normative significance; second, we should significantly increase our relative credence in contextualism over standard invariantism; and finally, even if moderate invariantism is true, we should replace our invariantist
concept of knowledge with a better epistemic concept, such as a contextualist one.</div>
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