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Relativism, Knowledge and Understanding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The arguments for and against a truth-relativist semantics for propositionalknowledge attributions (KTR) have been debated almost exclusively in the philosophy of language. But what implications would this semantic thesis have in epistemology?
Carter, J. Adam
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Relativism in Feminist Epistemologies

open access: yes, 2020
Different views on the connection between relativism and feminist epistemologies are often asserted but rarely are these views clearly argued for.
Ashton, Natalie Alana   +1 more
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Truth-Relativism, Norm-Relativism, and Assertion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The main goal in this paper is to outline and defend a form of Relativism, under which truth is absolute but assertibility is not. I dub such a view Norm-Relativism in contrast to the more familiar forms of Truth-Relativism.
Greenough, Patrick Michael   +3 more
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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli   +2 more
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Relativized codes

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 2012
In [Tamkang J. Math 11, 59--66 (1980; Zbl 0456.68094)], \textit{T. Head} has considered unique decodability of formal languages in the case when the set of code words is not a code. The usefulness of such an approach has been documented, inter alia, by \textit{F. Burderi} and \textit{A. Restivo} [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 9, No.
Mark Daley   +3 more
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Relativism and radical conservatism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The chapter tackles the complex, tension-ridden, and often paradoxical relationship between relativism and conservatism. We focus particularly on radical conservatism, an early twentieth-century German movement that arguably constitutes the climax of ...
Pankakoski, Timo   +3 more
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Disagreement, Points of View, and Truth-Relativism

open access: yes, 2022
Truth-relativism is the claim that the truth of statements is dependent on the context in which they are made. In this article, truth-relativism is considered as a way to explain disagreements.
Hautamäki, Antti, Antti Hautamäki
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Relativism and hinge epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This is a survey of different versions of hinge epistemology and their commitment to relativism either of difference or of disagreement, It concludes that on most interpretations of Wittgenstein's On Certainty, there is no commitment to either, although ...
A. Coliva, Annalisa Coliva
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Four different views of scientific knowledge and the birth of modern relativism: The very important challenge facing reformed churches in a Western world

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
Theologians are used to pointing the finger at European continental postmodernism when dealing with modern relativism. This article addresses a problem that is seldom highlighted within theology: modern relativism is the result of a series of ...
Nicolaas J. Gronum
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Relativism defended

open access: yesCogent 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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