In Cory D. Wright & Nikolaj Pedersen (eds.),
New Waves in Truth. Palgrave-Macmillan (
2010)
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Abstract
This paper is in five sections. In the first one, I summarize some views on
truthmaking I will be presupposing, emphasizing however the various controversies on
which I will remain neutral. In section two and three, I present the characterization of a
response-dependent property. In section four, I present two ways in which a property can
be response-dependent, in the characterized sense. In final section five, I present how these
correspond to different versions of moderate relativism, namely indexical and nonindexical
contextualism. Thus the view presented here contrasts not only with pluralism
about truth, but also with radical relativism about truth, as recently defended by John
MacFarlane.