Is relativism a coherent thesis? The paper argues for a new view of relativism that opposes both classic and contemporary views. On this view, the thesis of relativism is coherent even if the key notions in the standard apparatus of relativism—of alternative conceptual schemes, relative truth, perspectival content—are all incoherent. The view defended here highlights issues about attitude attribution and explanation in formulating the thesis of relativism and it proposes a surprising connection between relativism and nonsense. The paper argues further that the thesis of relativism, so understood, is coherent, by considering different accounts of the semantics of attitude attributions in their application to the attribution of nonsensical thinking.

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相对主义中的归因与解释

相对主义是一个连贯的论点吗？该论文主张一种反对经典和现代观点的相对主义的新观点。按照这种观点，即使相对主义标准工具中的关键概念——替代概念方案、相对真理、透视内容——都是不连贯的，相对主义的论点也是连贯的。这里捍卫的观点突出了在形成相对主义论点时态度归因和解释的问题，它提出了相对主义和废话之间令人惊讶的联系。该论文进一步论证了相对主义的论点，如此理解，是连贯的，通过考虑态度归因语义的不同解释，将它们应用于无意义思维的归因。