Abstract
Contextualists and relativists about predicates of personal taste, epistemic modals, and so on (“CR-expressions”) agree that the interpretation of these expressions depends, in some sense, on context. Relativists claim that the sort of context-sensitivity exhibited by CR-expressions is importantly different from that exhibited by paradigm context-sensitive expressions. This bifurcation is often motivated by the claim that the two classes of expressions behave differently in patterns of agreement and disagreement. I provide cases illustrating that the same sorts of discourse phenomena that have been thought problematic for contextualists can arise with paradigm context-sensitive expressions. These cases motivate a more unified treatment of paradigm context-sensitive expressions and the expressions that have figured in recent contextualism/relativism debates.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 115-123 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Thought: A Journal of Philosophy |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 11 May 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2014 |