Précis of Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its Applications

Assessment Sensitivity has two interconnected aims. The first is to give a clear account of what it is to be a relativist about truth. Most of the copious philosophical ink that has been spilled over truth relativism has been devoted to refutations of the thesis, or defenses against these refutations, with neither side saying very clearly what the thesis amounts to. I propose a way of understanding the thesis that makes it philosophically interesting, but not so interesting that it becomes indefensible. I try to say clearly exactly what one needs to show in order to establish that truth is relative in this sense.