Posted by alexandra_k on March 12, 2005, at 0:35:47
In reply to Re: Another go... » zeugma, posted by alexandra_k on March 11, 2005, at 23:26:48
Sorry. That did turn into an esay rather.
I hadn't really thought about the different ways in which we use the word 'relative'. What I wonder, though is that we might be able to analyse it into a finite number of different senses. Then if you take a statement such as 'morality is relative' then you can assign it a truth value depending on the sense of 'relative' you are talking about. So on some readings it would be true and on others it may be false and on still more neither true nor false - perhaps. I wonder if analysing it in this way would give each reading a determinate truth value.
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