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Relativism and Monadic Truth (Hardcover)
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Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and
present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes
of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making
something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a
comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in
foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not
merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the
foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so
requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible
worlds semantics, an examination of the relation between truth and
the flow of time, an account of putatively relevant data from
attitude and speech act reporting, and a careful treatment of
various operators. Throughout, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne
contrast relativism with a view according to which the contents of
thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental
monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter.
Such propositions, they argue, are the semantic values of sentences
(relative to context), the objects of illocutionary acts, and,
unsurprisingly, the objects of propositional attitudes.
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