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MACFARLANE ON RELATIVE TRUTH
Author(s) -
Heck Richard G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
philosophical issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1758-2237
pISSN - 1533-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1533-6077.2006.00104.x
Subject(s) - citation , philosophy , computer science , library science
Then, the intuition is supposed to be, this utterance is true. But, obviously, the very same sentence has been uttered both on Monday and on Wednesday, and yet these utterances have different truthvalues. One might take this reflection to constitute a refutation of the mentioned view about future contingents. In any event, it certainly poses a problem for that view, and MacFarlane means to offer a 1 Whether it is false or neither true nor false will not matter for our purposes. Let’s suppose it’s the latter.