EBOOK Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its Applications - John MacFarlane

EBOOK Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its Applications
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Autor: John MacFarlane

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191021244
EAN: 78A2698DEB
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2014
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Relative Truth and its Applications
John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism about truth, going back to Plato's Theaetetus, this literature (both pro and con) has tended to focus on refutations of the doctrine, or refutations of theserefutations, at the expense of saying clearly what the doctrine is. In contrast, Assessment Sensitivity begins with a clear account of what it is to be a relativist about truth, and uses this view to give satisfying accounts of what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, whatmight be the case, and what we ought to do. The book seeks to provide a richer framework for the description of linguistic practices than standard truth-conditional semantics affords: one that allows not just standard contextual sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context in which an expression is used), but assessment sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context from which a use of an expression is assessed).  The Context and Content series is a forum for outstanding original research at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. The general editor is Franois Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris).

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