Greco’s explanatory salience contextualism revisited

Abstract According to Greco’s early explanatory salience contextualism, S knows that p if and only ’s cognitive abilities are the salient factor in a causal explanation of why holds true belief rather than false or no at all. Greco abandoned this view because it cannot handle fake barn cases proves impossible analyze knowledge terms quantitative characterization salience. The paper argues core idea contextualism could have been saved notion had replaced by an abductive notion.