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Relativism and monadic truth /

Cappelen and Hawthorne present a powerful critique of fashionable relativist accounts of truth, and the foundational ideas in semantics on which the new relativism draws. They argue that the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cappelen, Herman
Other Authors: Hawthorne, John (John P.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Relativity.
Truth.
Semantics.
Semantics
Relativité.
Vérité.
Sémantique.
truth.
semantics.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Relativity
Truth
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Cappelen and Hawthorne present a powerful critique of fashionable relativist accounts of truth, and the foundational ideas in semantics on which the new relativism draws. They argue that the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth and falsity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 148 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index.
ISBN:9780191567995
019156799X
9780191720963
0191720968