Perspectival Thought: A Plea for (Moderate) Relativism

by François Recanati

Book Overview

Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is so, Fran ois Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations alike must be assigned two layers of content: the explicit content, or lekton, is relative and perspectival, while the complete content, which is absolute, involves contextual factors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199230544
• ISBN13: 9780199230549
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"