Expressivism, Relativism, and the Analytic Equivalence Test
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Frontiers Media
Materia
context-dependence assessment relativism expressivism
Fecha
2015-11-24Referencia bibliográfica
Frápoli Sanz, M.J. & Villanueva Fernández, A.N. Front. Psychol.6:1788. [https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01788]
Patrocinador
European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Curie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 653056; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación del Gobierno de España (Project FFI2013-44836-P); University of Granada (Plan Propio, Programa de Sabáticos, and Proyecto Expresivismo Doxástico)Resumen
The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field, 2009), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished. We do so by arguing that relativism and expressivism exemplify two very different approaches to context-dependence. Relativism, on the one hand, shares with other contemporary approaches a bottom–up, building block, model, while expressivism is part of a different tradition, one that might include Lewis’ epistemic contextualism and Frege’s content individuation, with which it shares an organic model to deal with context-dependence. The building-block model and the organic model, and thus relativism and expressivism, are set apart with the aid of a particular test: only the building-block model is compatible with the idea that there might be analytically equivalent, and yet different, propositions.