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The Relativity of Truth

Antti Hautamäki

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Dependency (UML)Theory of relativitymedia_common.quotation_subjectPhilosophyContext (language use)RelativismSkepticismmedia_commonKochen–Specker theoremEpistemology

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In this chapter, I discuss the relativity of truth and define the concept of viewpoint-relative truth. The relativity of truth is perhaps the strongest form of epistemological relativity that can used to deduce the relativity of knowledge and reality. One of the fundamental problems of epistemology is overcoming doubt, which is why I will introduce epistemology by presenting the problem of scepticism. After this, I discuss different theories of truth. The contextuality, or the dependency on context, of truth is focal to viewpoint relativism, and I build the definition of viewpoint-dependent truth upon it. As an example of relativism that utilises contextuality, I will present MacFarlane’s theory of relativism, which represents the so-called “new relativism.” Finally, I explain what I mean by truth relativism.

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2020-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34595-2_4