Truth and Truth Bearers: Meaning in Context, Volume II
Mark Richard
Abstract
This book contains nine chapters originally published between 1980 and 2014 plus four new chapters and an introduction putting the chapters in context. Each chapter is an attempt, in one way or another, to understand the idea of a proposition. Part I discusses whether the objects of thought and assertion can change truth value over time. Part II develops and defends a relativist view of the objects of assertion and thought; it includes discussions of the nature of disagreement, moral relativism, and responds to important objections to relativism. It also explores the idea that thoughts and ass ... More
This book contains nine chapters originally published between 1980 and 2014 plus four new chapters and an introduction putting the chapters in context. Each chapter is an attempt, in one way or another, to understand the idea of a proposition. Part I discusses whether the objects of thought and assertion can change truth value over time. Part II develops and defends a relativist view of the objects of assertion and thought; it includes discussions of the nature of disagreement, moral relativism, and responds to important objections to relativism. It also explores the idea that thoughts and assertions may be neither true nor false. Part III discusses issues having to do with relations between sentential and propositional structure, including the semantics of quotation, “mixed quotation,” opacity, philosophical analysis and propositional structure, and the semantics of demonstratives and clausal complements.
Keywords:
propositions,
tense and propositions,
relativism,
disagreement,
truth value gaps,
truth,
philosophical analysis,
opacity,
quotation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198747765 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747765.001.0001 |
