Introduction to Relative Truth

Nor are meta-linguistic claims such as ‘the proposition that Socrates was a philosopher is true’, ‘what John asserted at 3 o’clock on January 15, 2002 is false’, and ‘Since John said that it’s raining on January 15, 2002, and Mary said that it’s not raining on January 15, 2002, John and Mary disagree about whether it is raining on January 15, 2002’. There are two reasons why such talk, in standard semantics, would be at best loosely true (see also Glanzberg’s contribution to this double issue). Firstly, standard semantics does not assume that utterances of sentences make implicit reference to worlds (A), and secondly, standard semantics does not assume that there is only