Perspectival Plurality, Relativism, and Multiple Indexing

In Rob Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern & Hannah Rohde, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. Semantics Archives. pp. 1353-1370 (2018)
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Abstract

In this paper I focus on a recently discussed phenomenon illustrated by sentences containing predicates of taste: the phenomenon of " perspectival plurality " , whereby sentences containing two or more predicates of taste have readings according to which each predicate pertains to a different perspective. This phenomenon has been shown to be problematic for (at least certain versions of) relativism. My main aim is to further the discussion by showing that the phenomenon extends to other perspectival expressions than predicates of taste and by proposing a general solution to the problem raised by it on behalf of the relativist. The core claim of the solution (" multiple indexing ") is that utterances of sentences containing perspectival expressions should be evaluated with respect to (possibly infinite) sequences of perspective parameters.

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Dan Zeman
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Multiple Indexing Relativism about Predicates of Taste.Dan Zeman - 2019 - Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 51 (151):5-34.

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