'Relatively True' from a Historical Point of View

  • Piero Cresto-Dina Università di Torino
Keywords: historical experience, relative truth, inferentialism, hermeneutics, true/false from a historical point of view

Abstract

The paper focuses on the problem of historical experience, providing a relativistic account of our epistemic practices concerning past events. What does it mean to state that a historical sentence is true relatively to a context of assessment? The setting of this topic is a non-factual definition of truth and an inferentialist approach to the problem of meaning.

Published
2011-03-01
Section
Monografica