![]() You send the money.īut now imagine you’re transferring $50,000. Imagine you’re transferring $10 to your daughter. It only makes sense given a particular context.Įpistemic contextualists say that knowledge is the same. And it makes no sense to further ask whether I’m really tall or not. ![]() So in that context, the sentence is false. Consider the sentence “I’m tall.” Surrounded by 5-year-olds at a rollercoaster park, the sentence is true - after all, I can get on all the rides and they can’t.īut at the try-outs for the Harlem Globetrotters, my measly 5’11” won’t cut it. To understand what this is, we first must understand a familiar idea: context shift. I recommend letting philosophy do the work, specifically “ epistemic contextualism.” Getting knee deep in the vloggersphere, you might learn the details of the scientific proofs as well as painstakingly spelling out each error in every flat-earther’s rebuttal. And even if you know the details, unless you’ve indulged existing flat-earth literature, you are unlikely - right here, right now - to be able to cogently, concisely, and comprehensively respond to the lengthy rebuttals flat-earthers will give to each and every scientific proof. But unless you’re unusual, you probably don’t know all of the details of the scientific proofs. ![]() Perhaps you then start to appeal to science. The standard of proof is higher, they say. Or possibly you rely on the testimony of astronauts. Consider one, standard, flat-earth line: “Can you prove the world is round?” Maybe you point to the ( often artificially assembled) photos of Earth from space.
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