A Contextual Theory of Epistemic Justification
Author: David Annis
(Pg. 248 – 254)

Conclusion:

The Contextualism theory has many different factors associated with it that are overlooked by both the Foundationalism theory and the Coherentism theory. Contextualism is a good option to Foundationalism and Coherentism, because unlike the latter two, Contextualism focuses on the social natures and contextual parameters of justification.

Clarification:

Foundationalism – "The theory that every empirical statement which is justified ultimately must derive at least some of its justification from a special class of basic statements which have at least some degree of justification independent of the support such statements may derive from other statements."

Coherentism – "A statement is justified if and only if it coheres with a certain kind of system of statements."

Reasons: (Premises)

1. Issue Context – In order to properly examine an issue, we must be able to......

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