A couple of days
ago I wrote a little post arguing that perhaps some of the knowledge denial
sentences that were said to support contextualism in epistemology could be read
as meta-linguistic negations, and if they were they didnt support
contextualism. It turns out Keith DeRose has already written on this. See this paper, especially
footnote 37. DeRose disagrees with me about the pronunciation data, but I dont
think hes very persuasive there. More importantly, he brings up some other disanalogies between familiar cases of meta-linguistic
negation and what goes on in the knowledge denials. So it looks unlikely that
my little theory was correct, although I still think the data about
pronunciation need to be explained.
One day Ill learn
to research first write second, but I may have to stop writing for the blog when I learn that.