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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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Assessment relativism, as developed by John MacFarlane, is the view that the truth of our claims involving a variety of English expressions—‘tasty’, ‘knows’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘might’, and ‘ought’—is relative not only to aspects of the context of their ...
Ferrari, Filippo, Filippo Ferrari
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Since the time of Plato, relativism has been attacked as a self-refuting theory. Today, there are two basic kinds of argument that are used to show that global relativism is logically incoherent: first, a direct descendent of the argument Plato uses ...
H. Muhammad Legenhausen
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Relativism: Protagoras and Nelson Goodman [PDF]
Discussion of the many faces of relativism occupies a highly prominent place in the epistemological literature. Protagoras in ancient Greece and Nelson Goodman in the modern period are two most notable proponent of relativism.
Esmaeil Saadati Khamseh
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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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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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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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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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Relativizing relativized computations
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Immerman, N, MAHANEY, SR
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