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Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism [PDF]
Organization Studies, 2011 The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or
Ismael Al-Amoudi
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2016 I argue for a type of relativism that allows different people to have conflicting accurate representations of the world. This is contrary to the view of most Anglo-American philosophers, who would, with Paul Boghossian in Fear of Knowledge, deny that ...
Howard Darmstadter
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Thomas Kuhn’s Incommensurability and Relativism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2022 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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Philosophia, 2021 AbstractThe particular behavior exhibited by sentences featuring predicates of personal taste such as “tasty” may drive us to claim that their truth depends on thecontext of assessment, as MacFarlane does. MacFarlane considers two ways in which the truth of a sentence can depend on the context of assessment.
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Relativism: A demon roaming through science [PDF]
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2003 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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Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
Daimon, 2023 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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Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law as critique of the "authoritarian" understanding of law and jurisprudence [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2022 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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A relationship between relativism and nazism. Fact or fiction? [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2016 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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Fikri, 2023 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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Assertion, action, and context [PDF]
, 2020 A common objection to both contextualism and relativism about knowledge ascriptions is that they threaten knowledge norms of assertion and action. Consequently, if there is good reason to accept knowledge norms of assertion or action, there is good ...
Hannon, Michael, McKenna, Robin
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