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A framework that emphasizes contingency, context‑dependence, and uncertainty in logic and knowledge. It rejects the idea of necessary logical truths or universal epistemic standards, arguing that what counts as logical or rational depends on contingent facts about the world, our biology, our history, or our practical interests. Contingencial logico‑epistemology often overlaps with pragmatism, evolutionary epistemology, and situated cognition, and it challenges the search for a priori foundations.
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