There is a type of metaphysical picture that surfaces in a range of philosophical discussions, is of intrinsic interest, and yet remains ill-understood. According to this picture, the world contains a range of standpoints relative to which different facts obtain. Any true representation of the world cannot but adopt a particular standpoint. The aim of this paper is to propose a regimentation of a metaphysics that underwrites this picture. Key components are a factive notion of metaphysical relativity, a deflationary notion of adopting standpoints, and two kinds of valid inference, one that allows one to abandon standpoints and one that does not. To better understand how theories formulated in terms of this framework are situated in dialectical space, I sketch a theory in the philosophy of time that admits both temporal and atemporal standpoints.

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立场：形而上学图画研究

有一种形而上学的图景出现在一系列哲学讨论中，具有内在的兴趣，但仍未被充分理解。根据这幅图，世界包含一系列与不同事实相关的观点。任何对世界的真实再现都不能不采用特定的立场。本文的目的是提出一种支持这幅图景的形而上学的组织。关键组成部分是形而上学相对论的事实性概念、采用立场的紧缩概念，以及两种有效推理，一种允许放弃立场，另一种则不允许。为了更好地理解根据该框架制定的理论如何置于辩证空间中，我在时间哲学中勾勒出一个理论，该理论同时承认时间和非时间的观点。