That EC concerns ‘knowledge’, rather than knowledge, might help to defuse other concerns about EC. As noted above, Lewis says dramatic and apparently troubling things when discussing his contextualist theory. For example, he says that once certain skeptical possibilities are raised “[knowledge] vanishes” (1996, 560). But his theory implies this only because Lewis is using the word ‘knowledge’ in a context where skeptical possibilities are not properly ignored and not excluded by his evidence. A contextualist can contend that this is less troubling than it might seem. Lewis’s theory does not imply that this vanishing extends to ordinary claims to “knowledge” outside of skepticial contexts. They remain true. Because it suggests otherwise, Lewis’s speaking of knowledge “vanishing”, as opposed to the falsity of certain propositions expressed by ‘knowledge’ sentences, is misleading (see Bach 2005, 54–55, and DeRose 2000).