Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism
by Meier, Cécile Van Wijnbergen-Huitink, Janneke
A dish may be delicious, a painting beautiful, a piece of information justified. Whether the attributed properties "really" hold, seems to depend on somebody like a speaker or a group of people that share standards and background. Relativists and contextualists differ in where they locate the dependency theoretically. This book collects papers that corroborate the contextualist view that the dependency is part of the language. This volume contributes to the debate on relativism vs. contextuali…
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A dish may be delicious, a painting beautiful, a piece of information justified. Whether the attributed properties "really" hold, seems to depend on somebody like a speaker or a group of people that share standards and background. Relativists and contextualists differ in where they locate the dependency theoretically. This book collects papers that corroborate the contextualist view that the dependency is part of the language.
This volume contributes to the debate on relativism vs. contextualism. It comprises a collection of papers that take the problem of "faultless disagreement" as their starting point. The contributors all criticize the relativist view that the v.
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- Publication Date:©2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
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- Description:1 online resource (259 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110402001, 3110402009, 3110402114, 9783110402117
- DOI:10.1515/9783110402001
- oclc:ocn973401222
- LC Classification:P299.S89
- Dewey Decimal:400
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