From relative truth to finean non-factualism
pp. 971-989
Abstract
This paper compares two ‘relativist’ theories about deliciousness: truth-relativism, and Kit Fine’s non-factualism about a subject-matter. Contemporary truth-relativism is presented as a linguistic thesis; its metaphysical underpinning is often neglected. I distinguish three views about the obtaining of worldly states of affairs concerning deliciousness, and argue that none yields a satisfactory version of truth-relativism. Finean non-factualism about deliciousness is not subject to the problems with truth-relativism. I conclude that Finean non-factualism is the better relativist theory. As I explain, non-facualism about deliciousness is happily combined with an invariantist semantics for the word “delicious”. On this approach, relativism is a matter for a metaphysical theory, not a linguistic one.
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Ågotnes Thomas, Bonanno Giacomo, van der Hoek Wiebe (2016) Logic and the foundations of game and decision theory. Synthese 193 (3).
Pages: 971-989
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0787-0
Full citation:
Jackson Alexander (2016) „From relative truth to finean non-factualism“. Synthese 193 (3), 971–989.