Linguistique de l’écrit

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Relativizing utterance-truth?

Dan López de Sa

pp. 1-5

Résumé

In recent years, some people have held that a radical relativist position is defensible in some philosophically interesting cases, including future contingents, predicates of personal taste, evaluative predicates in general, epistemic modals, and knowledge attributions. The position is frequently characterized as denying that utterance-truth is absolute. I argue that this characterization is inappropriate, as it requires a metaphysical substantive contention with which moderate views as such need not be committed. Before this, I also offer a more basic, admittedly less exciting alternative characterization of the position, in terms of departing from the Kaplan–Lewis–Stalnaker two-dimensional framework.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2009) Synthese 170 (1).

Pages: 1-5

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9345-3

Citation complète:

de Sa Dan López, 2009, Relativizing utterance-truth? Synthese 170 (1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9345-3.