ABSTRACT
Contextual semantics, a general approach to truth and ontology, asserts
that truth is semantically correct affirmability under contextually variable
semantic standards, that truth is frequently an indirect form of correspon-
dence between thought/language and the world, and that many Quinean
commitments are not genuine ontological commitments. Here we will briefly
sketch this position (which is developed at greater length elsewhere1), and
we will argue that contextualist semantics fits very naturally with the view
that the pertinent semantic standards are particularist rather than being systematizable as exceptionless general principles.
