A Natural Argument for Contextualism

ABSTRACT In the debate between contextualist and standard invariantist theories of knowledge, linguistic data have been the primary focus. This paper comes at the debate from a different angle: I argue that contextualism is much better than standard invariantism at respecting the objective metaphysical structure of epistemic reality . From this, I draw several further conclusions—for instance, that we should significantly boost our relative credence in contextualism over standard invariantism.