TY - BOOK ID - 1678563 TI - Perspectival thought : a plea for (moderate) relativism PY - 2007 SN - 9780199230549 9780199230532 0199230544 1281150304 9786611150303 0191528145 1435622065 0199230536 0191710911 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Philosophy of language KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Relativity. KW - Relationism. KW - Relativité KW - Relationnisme KW - Relativité KW - Relationism KW - Relativity KW - Relativism KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Reality KW - Existentialism KW - Relation (Philosophy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1678563 AB - Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is so, Fran--ccedil--;ois Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations alike must be assigned two layers of content: the explicit content, or lekton, is relative and perspectival, while the complete content, which is absolute, involves contextual factors in addition towhat is explicitly represented. Far from reducing to the context-independent meaning of the sentence-type or, in the psyc ER -