Volume 166, Number 2, 333-357, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9283-5

Conditionals and indexical relativism

Brian Weatherson

From the issue entitled "RELATIVE TRUTH"

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Abstract

I set out and defend a view on indicative conditionals that I call “indexical relativism”. The core of the view is that which proposition is (semantically) expressed by an utterance of a conditional is a function of (among other things) the speaker’s context and the assessor’s context. This implies a kind of relativism, namely that a single utterance may be correctly assessed as true by one assessor and false by another.

Keywords  Conditionals - Relativism - Variable binding

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