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Review of Relativism and Monadic Truth

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This is a review of Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne’s book Relativism and Monadic Truth (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009).

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    Alexander Almér & Dag Westerståhl

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Almér, A., Westerståhl, D. Review of Relativism and Monadic Truth . Linguist and Philos 33, 37–50 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-010-9071-4

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