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Conditionals and indexical relativism

Brian Weatherson

pp. 333-357

Abstract

I set out and defend a view on indicative conditionals that I call “indexical relativism”. The core of the view is that which proposition is (semantically) expressed by an utterance of a conditional is a function of (among other things) the speaker’s context and the assessor’s context. This implies a kind of relativism, namely that a single utterance may be correctly assessed as true by one assessor and false by another.

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(2009) Relative truth. Synthese 166 (2).

Pages: 333-357

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9283-5

Full citation:

Weatherson Brian (2009) „Conditionals and indexical relativism“. Synthese 166 (2), 333–357.