· 2014
Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its Applications
- 601citations
- 2014year
Short summary
John MacFarlane proposes a framework for understanding truth as relative, offering a new way to analyze discourse previously resistant to traditional methods.
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Key points
- Introduces 'assessment sensitivity' as a framework for understanding relative truth.
- Offers a new method for analyzing discourse that challenges traditional approaches.
- Aims to provide satisfying accounts for parts of thought and talk that resist traditional analysis.
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Abstract
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
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