Relativism and Monadic Truth

Relativism and Monadic Truth
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9780199560554
ISBN-13 : 0199560552
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Download or read book Relativism and Monadic Truth written by Herman Cappelen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 compellingly that the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth and falsity.


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