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Relativism

Relativism   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Art & Architecture, Philosophy
Length:
3,335 words

Relativists standardly make two claims: first, with regard to some subject matter, they claim that there is no universal standard

Relativism

Relativism   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
940 words

Relativism is any view that implies that conflicting judgments may be equally sound. Five kinds of relativism may be distinguished

Relativism

Relativism   Reference library

The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
995 words

Relativism is not one doctrine but many. Different forms of relativism can be categorized with the help of the schema:

relativism, epistemological

relativism, epistemological   Reference library

C. A. J. Coady

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
664 words
Relativist theories of knowledge are as old as Methuselah, or at least Protagoras, and as fashionable as Foucault or Rorty, but their exact import remains elusive. Protagoras put it ... More
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2006

the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute....

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