Parametric truth means that the truth value of a sentence depends on contextual parameters.Recently,the debate between contextualists and relativists has continued to rage in several aspects regarding this topic.This paper is intended to construe a contextually parametric coordinate system in order to reexamine and to develop this debate.First,two puzzles will be recognized over the relationship between truth and contextual parameters:Scope Puzzle and Role Puzzle;second,the first puzzle motivates a distinction between explicit and implicit parameters which can be used to define rich-content and thin-content propositions,and meantime they play the role of hori-zontal axis for the coordinate system;third,the second puzzle proposes to distinguish constitutive from evaluative parameters which are available for clarifying contextualism and relativism,and they operate as the vertical axis for our coordinate system.Last,such a system can show four new models about the disputes in question and be helpful to explore four specific phenomena of the parametric truth.
parametric truthcontextualismrelativismparametric coordinate system
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