The evidence for relativism

Synthese

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 375-395

  Kölbel, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circumstance of evaluation; Context of use; Contextualism; David Kaplan; David Lewis; Epistemic modals; Future contingents; Indexicality; Knowledge attributions; Relativism; Taste predicates

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549111602     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9281-7     Document Type: Article

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