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Relativism

In this article author critically examines the thesis of relativism. He wants to show that the examples which apparently support relativism do nto really support relativism as a normative thesis about truth, knowledge and moral norms ; these examples rather support weaker thesis of descriptive relativity. Although we may agree that our knowledge is relative to a certain degree, the really interesting question is whether it should be relative. Several different reactions to the factual relativity are compared: realistic, relativistic, skeptic, and dogmatic. Author tries to show that the realistic response is the only adequate response.

relativism; skepticism; realism; dogmatism; truth; cognition; knowledge; convergence; law of excluded middle; antirealism; norm; morality

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