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Relativism and Persistence [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 1997 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] Philosophers often talk as if what it takes for a person to persist through time were up to us,\ud as individuals or as a linguistic community, to decide. In most ordinary situations it might be\ud fully determinate whether someone has survived or perished: barring some unforeseen\ud catastrophe, it is clear enough that you will ...
Olson, E.T.
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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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Aufklärung, 2019 The present paper introduces four fundamental issues within the framework of epistemic relativism: (a) the lack of precision in the concept of knowing; (b) the changes in the demands between context of use and of evaluation; (c) the violation of the real
Rodrigo Laera
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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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Theoretical Computer Science, 2023 Bennett's notion of depth is usually considered to describe the usefulness and internal organization of the information encoded into an object such as an infinite binary sequence. We consider a natural way to relativize the notion of depth for such sets, and we investigate for various kinds of oracles whether and how the unrelativized and the ...
Laurent Bienvenu +2 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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Relativizing relativized computations
Theoretical Computer Science, 1989 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Immerman, N, MAHANEY, SR
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Relativism in the Context of National Socialism [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this chapter is to clarify the use and meaning of the concept of relativism in the context of National Socialism (NS). Section 1 examines the critical reproach that NS is a form of relativism.
Steizinger, Johannes
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Relatywizm kulturowy a badanie relacji międzykulturowych
Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2017 Cultural Relativism and Research on Intercultural Relations The article discusses various versions of relativism – descriptive, linguistic and axiological. Author assumes the attitude toward specific questions regarding above types of relativism in terms
Janusz A. Majcherek
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Crítica, 2018 Practice relativism is the idea that practices are foundational for bodies of activity and thought, and differ from one another in ways that lead those who constitute the world in terms of them to incommensurable or conflicting conclusions.
Stephen P. Turner
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