Does Safety Entail Context-Sensitivity?

In this article I discuss whether viewing safety as a necessary condition for knowing entails that the truth-conditions for knowledge is context-sensitive. I argue that, while it is far from clear-cut, there is at least not a strict entailment between the positing of safety as necessary for knowledg...

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Publicado en:Erkenntnis Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 1469 - 1482
Autor principal: Ask Zaar, Balder Edmund
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Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2026
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