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Relativism: A demon roaming through science [PDF]
The advocates of the so-called "hard science" view relativism as an extreme undesirable standpoint. The ill fame of relativism is most frequently explained by the opinion that relativism is striving, in general, for the position where "everything is ...
Stojnov Dušan B.
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Thomas Kuhn’s Incommensurability and Relativism [PDF]
One of the central notions in Thomas Kuhn’s thought is the notion of incommensurability. Generally, we can distinguish two kinds of incommensurability: methodological and semantic incommensurability.
Hassan Amiriara
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Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law as critique of the "authoritarian" understanding of law and jurisprudence [PDF]
In this paper, I analyse Hans Kelsen's understanding of jurisprudence and law - by contrasting the normative-dogmatic understanding, which I will call "authoritarian".
Techet Péter
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Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues that deflationism about truth entails the denial of relativism.
Ramiro Caso
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The relativism problem –allegedly has become a frightening specter for a stable religious and social existence. Relativism which believes there is no absolute truth; the truth is relative, raises a problem by denying the existence of God's truth and ...
Mohammad Muslih+3 more
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A relationship between relativism and nazism. Fact or fiction? [PDF]
According to a certain view that is dominant in historical research, the wide-spread racial doctrines of the twenties and thirties of the last century is said to have advanced relativism.
Böhnigk Volker
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Relativism and anthropology [PDF]
This paper focuses on the impact of relativism within anthropology as a discipline. Relativistic conceptions, account for in this analysis, emerged both from philosophy (philosophy of science in particular) and anthropology.
Radović Srđan
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Interdisciplinarity of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Linguistic relativism originally comes from anthropology and linguistics. However, most ofthe interpretations of linguistic relativism has come a long way considering the beginning ofthe 20th century – when it was established. One of the reasons for that
Azra Hodžić-Čavkić
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Relativism stresses that value judgements are statements about meaning and not about facts, about “ought” and not about “is”. Professor Arnold Brecht explained and substantiated the existence of a link between “is” and “ought”, which does not have a ...
Isabel Ruiz-Gallardón
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