Closure, contrast, and answer

Jonathan Schaffer

doi:10.1007/s11098-005-4545-x

Closure, contrast, and answer

Jonathan Schaffer^*

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How should the contrastivist formulate closure? That is, given that knowledge is a ternary contrastive state Kspq (s knows that p rather than q), how does this state extend under entailment? In what follows, I will identify adequacy conditions for closure, criticize the extant invariantist and contextualist closure schemas, and provide a contrastive schema based on the idea of extending answers. I will conclude that only the contrastivist can adequately formulate closure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-255
Number of pages	23
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume	133
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-4545-x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2007
Externally published	Yes

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