The Inflexibility of Relative Truth
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-1-2010
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2010.00295.x
Abstract
The ideology of relative truth is inflexible in two ways. Firstly, what's true-for-J is closed under entailment. This is a problem for using truth-relativism to solve the preface puzzle about knowledge. Secondly, it is plausible that vagueness gives rise to some questions having multiple 'acceptable' answers, and other questions having no 'acceptable' answer. Even if truth-relativism can express the former idea, it can't express the latter. I propose an ideology that is not so rigid. It is preferable to relative truth.
Publication Information
Jackson, Alexander. (2010). "The Inflexibility of Relative Truth". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 110(3, Part 3), 409-418.
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