Lean towards contextualism, but with some problems. For instance:
“I know that I have hands”
“I don’t know that I’m not a brain in a vat”
However, I’ve just asserted them side by side in the same context (of a Less Wrong discussion). And I don’t think relativism helps much either: can the assessor change their epistemic standards so quickly in the space of two consecutive sentences??
You’re allowed to be mistaken or lying. I suspect a contextualist would argue that exactly one of your assertions is true, depending on what the context of the discussion is.
Lean towards contextualism, but with some problems. For instance:
“I know that I have hands” “I don’t know that I’m not a brain in a vat”
However, I’ve just asserted them side by side in the same context (of a Less Wrong discussion). And I don’t think relativism helps much either: can the assessor change their epistemic standards so quickly in the space of two consecutive sentences??
You’re allowed to be mistaken or lying. I suspect a contextualist would argue that exactly one of your assertions is true, depending on what the context of the discussion is.