Open AccessRelativism, Contextualism, and Temporal Perspective
Author(s) -
Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
daimon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1989-4651
pISSN - 1130-0507
DOI - 10.6018/daimon/332731
Subject(s) - contextualism , proposition , perspective (graphical) , relativism , epistemology , meaning (existential) , context (archaeology) , truth condition , philosophy , linguistics , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , interpretation (philosophy) , history , archaeology
This article argues that there is no such thing as a proposition with variable truth-values, at least when considering English tensed sentences. This means that any account of meaning and truth that appeals to a notion of proposition with different truth-values at different times is necessarily at fault. The reason is that any evaluation context is always dominated by a temporal perspective beyond both speaker and audience and embedded to the communicational common ground. Only an approach that takes this into consideration is successful.