RT Article
T1 Epistemic Contextualism as Semantic Thesis and Knowledge-Attribution Standards in Qoheleth
JF Journal for semitics
VO 31
IS 2
SP 1
OP 16
A1 Gericke, Jaco
A2 Prinsloo, Gert T. M.
LA English
PB Unisa Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1860624618
AB The concept of knowledge plays an important role in Qoheleth. Both linguistic and philosophical perspectives remain popular trends in current related research. Developments in the two auxiliary disciplines that remain largely ignored include those associated with "Epistemic Contextualism." The theory has been used as both a substantive-epistemological and a descriptive-semantic thesis, both of which concern the way variable epistemic standards are seen to supervene in different contexts of knowledge attributions. Initially offered as a solution to the challenges of radical scepticism, it has recently sought to show how an utterance affirming and denying a subject "knows" that something is the case could both be meaningful in virtue of changing propositional contents expressed in response to variable contextual stakes, interests, and needs. The original contribution of this study lies in constructing the relevant data set in Qoheleth and illustrating the possibilities and problems of applying the semantic format of the theory to discrepant propositional attitude reports in the world of the text.
K1 Epistemic contextualism
K1 Knowledge
K1 Qohelet
K1 Philosophy
K1 Semantics
K1 Festschrift
DO 10.25159/2663-6573/12374