Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 205
Relativity/relative/absolute/Quine/Field: Ontological relativity on a background language).
Disanalogy: Places can only be understood by relations of objects - but this does not apply to words. No "linguistic relation" which would rule out indeterminacy.
Real indeterminacy/Field: E.g. no fact decides which translation is the best for Newton's "mass" (net weight or relativistic mass). E.g.
a) impulse = mass times velocity and
b) mass is invariant (independent of the reference system).
The two exclude each other.
Solution: Mass partly denotates the one and partially the other.
>Partial denotation.
II 208
Consistency: is here no question of empirical linguistics. E.g.
a) "it would be good"
b) "it would be good according to my standards".
Analog: disquotational truth: can then be a statement that is relativized to my norms - but no non-relativized evaluative statement can be disquotational true.
>Disquotationalism/Field.
II 254
Relativization/Field: Problem: in a relativization to a mere subjective probability law we do not get a truth value, but only conditional probability laws.
>Probability law, >Truth values.
Solution: conditional probability laws of B I A & R, where R is the totality of all truths (known or unknown) of a particular type, then conditionalities are perceivable that are believed only from a misunderstood background (not wrong!)
Field: we better do it completely without relativation.