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Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism

Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism

Meier, Cécile
Van Wijnbergen-Huitink, Janneke

Hardcover

Series: Linguistische Arbeiten, Book 559

PhilosophyGermanLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110374722
ISBN13: 9783110374728
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jul 11 2016
Pages: 259
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 variability in subjective judgments necessitates the variability of the notion of truth dependent on a judge or assessor. They investigate the problem of faultless disagreement by investigating differences and similarities between subjective judgments with epistemic modals on the one hand and predicates of personal taste on the other. Importantly, they also draw on data beyond taste and knowledge, including data from language acquisition. The theoretical analyses are quite diverse. But all proposals are compatible with the contextualist view - that the variability in subjective judgments is an effect of how the meaning of an expression is understood.

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