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    1. What is Lewis' paper all about?

      1. Taking a stand against skepticsm.
      2. Refuting fallibilism.
      3. Pleading for infallibility. That is, on an account that considers a different approach to e.g. GETTIER. While Gettier puts his definition of knowledge (as justified true believe: JTB) on justification, Lewis proposes to lose justification as a core attribute of knowledge altogether.
      4. Proposes an approach to knowledge ascription based on context.

      Q: What is the notion of contexts built on? Intuition? Does Lewis take contexts (and context-dependence) as descriptive facts? Evidence by perception?

      Q: How does he solve the Gettier problem