David Lewis's influential contextualist account of knowledge as elimination of all uneliminated possibilities of error — where context determines which possibilities must be eliminated.
Knowledge is the elimination of all relevant possibilities of error; context determines which possibilities are relevant; the skeptic introduces possibilities that everyday contexts ignore; knowledge is easily attributed and easily lost — elusive.
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