 But if the term 'knowledge' is used when skeptical hypotheses are being discussed, we count as "knowing" very little, if anything.Contextualists use this to explain why skeptical arguments can be persuasive, while at the same time protecting the correctness of our ordinary claims to "know" things.This theory does not allow that someone can have knowledge at one moment and not the other, which would not be a satisfying epistemological answer.