Truth in Semantics

In Felicia Ackerman (ed.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 242–257 (1981)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Recent Relativism Standard Semantics and Ordinary Truth Relativist Semantics and Ordinary Truth Issues of Commensurability References.

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truth in semantics – a central aspect of the meaning of natural language sentences   relativistic semantics – predicates of personal taste, epistemic modals, sentences about the contingent future, evaluative sentences attributing knowledge   sentential truth – a theoretical concept not identical to any pre‐theoretic concept   intensional theory – adding extra information to extensional theory   extensional theory – information about the extensions of expressions and information in non‐actual worlds   Contents – functions from circumstances of evaluation to truth‐values   contemporary relativists – who claim that truth of some propositions varies with novel parameter – with a standard of taste, with a state of information, with interests or with a moral code   non‐relativists – insist that truth of a proposition at most varies with a possible world

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Max Kölbel
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