Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism. |
There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results. |
In very general terms, epistemological contextualism maintains that whether one knows is somehow relative to context. |
Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism. |
In fact, it seems even worse if contextualism about the meaning of theoretical terms is adopted. |
Let us turn now, though, to subjunctive conditionals contextualism. |