TY - JOUR
T1 - From Relative Truth to Finean Non-Factualism
AU - Jackson, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - This paper compares two ‘relativist’ theories about deliciousness: truth-relativism, and Kit Fine’s non-factualism about a subject-matter. Contemporary truth-relativism is presented as a linguistic thesis; its metaphysical underpinning is often neglected. I distinguish three views about the obtaining of worldly states of affairs concerning deliciousness, and argue that none yields a satisfactory version of truth-relativism. Finean non-factualism about deliciousness is not subject to the problems with truth-relativism. I conclude that Finean non- factualism is the better relativist theory. As I explain, non-facualism about deliciousness is happily combined with an invariantist semantics for the word “delicious”. On this approach, relativism is a matter for a metaphysical theory, not a linguistic one.
AB - This paper compares two ‘relativist’ theories about deliciousness: truth-relativism, and Kit Fine’s non-factualism about a subject-matter. Contemporary truth-relativism is presented as a linguistic thesis; its metaphysical underpinning is often neglected. I distinguish three views about the obtaining of worldly states of affairs concerning deliciousness, and argue that none yields a satisfactory version of truth-relativism. Finean non-factualism about deliciousness is not subject to the problems with truth-relativism. I conclude that Finean non- factualism is the better relativist theory. As I explain, non-facualism about deliciousness is happily combined with an invariantist semantics for the word “delicious”. On this approach, relativism is a matter for a metaphysical theory, not a linguistic one.
KW - Kit Fine
KW - matters of taste
KW - non-factualism
KW - relative truth
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/philosophy_facpubs/27
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84958931784&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11229-015-0787-0
DO - 10.1007/s11229-015-0787-0
M3 - Article
VL - 193
SP - 971
EP - 989
JO - Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
JF - Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
IS - 3
ER -