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UK
/ɹɪlˈætɪvˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˈɹɛɫətɪˌvɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛɫətɪˌvɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
How To Use relativism In A Sentence
- I just wanted to make a few comments about the sand trap that I'll call perspectival relativism.
- The main genera of relativism can be distinguished according to the object they seek to relativize.
- It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.
- From moral relativism to denying the unique moral authority of God was a short step.
- When you get to the core of the argument, the question of relativism vs. absolutism is what the issue is about. Waldo Jaquith - Bob Gibson opposes Amendment #1.
- Hobbes and Cavendish shared pessimism about human nature, and an anxiety about ethical and linguistic relativism.
- One of the results of relativism is the inability to discuss place as anything other than an uninterpretable given.
- The group of them got into a happy conversation, and like a pot set vigorously aboil, the waiting room was soon splattered by the frolicsome four: "radical secular left," "cultural relativism run amok," "post-modern world," "the mushy middle," etc. Archive 2008-03-01
- This movement for cultural relativism within Western society betrays the basic values on which our open society is constructed. Times, Sunday Times
- The question remains whether one should reject the concept of pluralism which reflects moral and ethical relativism. Times, Sunday Times