Relativist fallacy (4904 bytes)
1: ...e same time. On this formulation, the very name "relativist fallacy" [[Begging the question|begs the question...
3: ...] (generally), or as the [[ad hoc]] adoption of a relativist stance purely to defend a controversial position.
5: ...inst an earnest, intelligent, logically-competent relativist. It is itself a fallacy to describe a controvers...
6: ...n some sophisticated relativism, is to commit the relativist fallacy.
11: On the other hand, if someone adopts a simple relativist stance as an [[ad hoc]] defense of a controversia...

Irrealism (759 bytes)
1: ...sm, but were also critical of the [[idealist]], [[relativist]], or [[reductionist]] tendencies of the anti-rea...

Cathleen Synge Morawetz (905 bytes)
1: ...ther, [[John Lighton Synge]] was an Irish general relativist and her childhood was split between Ireland and C...

If-by-whiskey (1073 bytes)
1: ...n political discourse, '''if-by-whiskey''' is a [[relativist fallacy]] where the response to a question is con...

Universology (1526 bytes)
5: Universology, with its relativist and human-centered perspective, has vast implicat...

Transcendental argument for the existence of God (9484 bytes)
15: ...y "borrowed capital" from Christianity, which the relativist in turn uses even in his arguments against the tr...

Martha Nussbaum (3099 bytes)
5: ..., and therefore contrasts with [[moral relativism|relativist]] approaches to development. Much of the work is ...

Barycentric Dynamical Time (4296 bytes)
1: ...d as the [[relativist]]ic replacement for the non-relativistic [[Ephemeris Time]] which had been used in the [...
3: ...constant]], match the traditional values from pre-relativistic days. [[Terrestrial Dynamical Time]] (TDT) and...
5: ...fined because it was not accompanied by a general relativistic metric and because the exact relationship betwe...
7: ...ial clocks, albeit "corrected" for (some) general relativistic effects, on a data set with which it might not ...
9: ...ssils of early attempts to define absolute time. Relativists who are familiar with general relativity insist ...

Moral relativism (15590 bytes)
1: ... or acts cannot be judged by another, though most relativists propound a more limited version of the theory. <...
3: Some moral relativists &mdash; for example, [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] (1905-...
19: ...om an action will occur. However, the descriptive relativist does not necessarily deny that there is one, corr...
21: ...hen he put on his metaethicist's hat. Metaethical relativists, in general, believe that the descriptive proper...
25: ...e, [[Charles L. Stevenson]] {1908-1979). Not all relativists would hold that moral propositions are meaningle...

Enemy (4484 bytes)
1: An '''enemy''' or '''foe''' is a [[relativism|relativist]] term for an entity that is seen as forcefully a...

Pragmatism (4136 bytes)
5: ...rles Sanders Peirce]]), others so pluralistic and relativist ([[William James]]) as to be almost anti-scientif...

Marginalization (4987 bytes)
23: ...ing' toward others. In essence, this [[relativism|relativist]] aspect of conservative thought extends from the...

Relativism (5723 bytes)
1: ...beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. Relativists claim that humans understand and evaluate belief...
29: *[[relativist fallacy]]

Richard Rorty (5263 bytes)
9: ...attack both from some on the Right, who call them relativist and irresponsible, and some on the Left, who beli...

James Clavell (5417 bytes)
15: ...not call himself a [[cultural relativism|cultural relativist]], he attempts to admire Asian cultures by their ...

Epistemic theories of truth (7425 bytes)
7: #Perspectivalist (relativist) theories.

Minkowski space (8667 bytes)
14: ...o use the signature <tt>(-,+,+,+)</tt> (used by [[relativist]]s). Minkowski space is often denoted '''R'''<sup...

Simple view of ethics and morals (10441 bytes)
58: ...x views, then you are neither an absolutist nor a relativist, and believe in some kind of [[moral cognition]]....

John Dewey (10340 bytes)
20: ...nearly so [[pluralism|pluralist]] or [[Relativism|relativist]] as James. He held that value was a function not...

Cultural relativism (35310 bytes)
35: ...ent [[Alfred Kroeber]] described the rise of the relativist perspective thus:
84: ...e but procedural. That is, it does nor require a relativist to sacrifies his or her values. But it does requ...
85: ...ve often asserted (Hartung 1954: 119-125). But a relativist will acknowledge that the criticism is based on h...
107: ...ed acceptances of our own society. What the anti-relativists -- self-declared -- want us to worry about, and ...

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