However, according to Goodman, this would be wrong-headed (WW, 112).  Consider the following two historiographical sentences: “The kings of Sparta had two votes” and “The kings of Sparta had only one vote”. The first sentence is part of a report by Herodotus, the second part of a report by Thucydides. There is, again, an inclination to understand these sentences as ellipses for “According to Herodotus, the kings of Sparta had two votes”, and “According to Thucydides, the kings of Sparta had only one vote”. But obviously these latter two sentences do not tell us anything about Sparta. They only tell us about what Herodotus and Thucydides said about Sparta. It is true that “according to Herodotus, the kings of Sparta had two votes”, even if they actually had no vote or had three votes. The same holds for the relativizations to the geocentric and the heliocentric systems: it is true that the Earth is at rest according to the geocentric system, but that still does not inform us about the world. Thus, if we assume that (S1) and (S2) are both true, we end up with a contradiction if we take them to be literally true of one and the same world. If we do not take them to be literally true, but to be elliptical and implicitly relativized, we end up with two truths that are not about any world. At least, they are not about the parts of the world we were interested in. They turn out to be truths about versions, but not truths about planets. The solution chosen by Goodman is to claim that they are about two different worlds. Both state a literal truth about a world, but just not about the same world.