Questions tagged [relativism]
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Why must relativists "allow that there is a subculture of rationalists, who believe that the principles of reasoning are universal"?
From: Philip Johnson-Laird BA PhD Psychology (UCL), Stuart Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton. (Author isn't a logician.) How We Reason (1st edn 2008). p. 275.
Do Kpelle rice farmers in Liberia reason in the same way as villagers…
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Is relativism dead?
Most philosophers I know say that relativism is a dead philosophy and that it's used by freshmen philosophers to shrug off objective truth. Whenever I bring up anything that sounds remotely similar to relativism, I am called a sophist. Is relativism…
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How can I argue against the argument: "relativism" is in itself another "centrism"?
To elaborate, one argument against cultural relativism is that the idea itself is another form of ethnocentrism. Because apparently, cultural relativism puts itself in a higher moral ground than ethnocentrism.
So for example, consider this argument…
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Is there a formal philosophy of moderation/mediation?
For context, it is my suspicion that practical problems arise out of philosophy when it is too strictly implemented. (Possibly we would call this extremism.) In computer science terms, and exclusive or (XOR) in relation to philosophy is…
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Is there a difference between absolute nothing and relative nothing?
Am I the only one who think absolute nothing is actually relative? The term "Absolute" is basically in relation or with respect to everything while "relative" is with respect to something or an individual. Not to mention that the term "nothing" is…
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Why is it said that relativists can't talk with each other?
I haven't an actual quote but I have read it more than once. Relativists can't talk with each other or at least don't understand eachother. Their concepts may be incommensurable but I don't understand why this means they can't talk. Is some…
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