forum for week of 21 Nov: the appeal of truth relativism

Important here to make qualifications though. Saying that pizza is my favourite food isn't only true for them, but objectively true, as the indexical "I" indicates the person speaking, which corresponds for everyone else to the sentance "your favourite food is pizza". Similarly for the Stephen Harper example, while it is an objective fact that he is Pm at this moment, it was also an objective fact that a hundred years ago, he was not. It depends completely on the moment of the utteration, but that input does nothing to alter whether Stephen harper is PM or not. The claim made is really that Stephen Harper is PM at the time at which the claim is made, so the complete thought would be drawn out as "Stephen Harper is PM of Canada in Novemeber 2011", which always will be true, regardless of the location of the speaker in time. So, in short, yes I believe truth to be objective.