Truth Without Objectivity - 9780415272452

Taylor & Francis

K\u00F6lbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory. > \nTruth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. K\u00F6lbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth.\nThe mainstream view of meaning assumes that understanding a sentence's meaning implies knowledge of the conditions required for it to be true. This view is challenged by taste judgements, which have meaning, but seem to be neither true nor false. > Chapter 1 Truth-Conditional Semantics; Chapter 2 Excess Objectivity; Chapter 3 Revisionism; Chapter 4 Expressivism; Chapter 5 Soft Truth; Chapter 6 Relative Truth and Linguistic Communication; Chapter 7 Defence of Relativism; > Max K\u00F6lbel is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.