In this Wireless Philosophy video, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) introduces a new approach to the problem of skepticism: contrastivism. At odds with traditional philosophical approaches to knowledge, contrastive knowledge holds that knowledge statements are true only relative to a set of relevant alternatives. [7:09]

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khan academy, knowledge, metaphysics

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• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)