Sliding from possible worlds semantics to truth

Relativism and strong forms of contextualism assert, from what I gather, that the content of a proposition is not true or false simpliciter, but rather true or false at a time/world/context. A motivation for accepting semantic relativism is the success of possible worlds semantics. It becomes easy to make the move from thinking about possible [...]

Hilary Putnam’s anti-Skepticism Argument

1) If I am a brain in a vat, I express a falsehood in uttering the sentence “I am a brain in a vat.” 2) If I am not a brain in a vat, I express a falsehood in uttering the sentence “I am a brain in a vat.” 3) I am either a brain [...]

“Simplicity”

…is the name of Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne’s theory of truth and propositions in their new book Relativism and Monadic Truth. It contains five thesis which “fit together nicely”: T1: There are propositions and they instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter. T2: The semantic values of declarative sentences relative [...]