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Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions...

The relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when in...

the theoretical flexibility of thematic analysis and its use within realist, critical realist and relativist ontologies and positivist, contextualist...

possible for an anthropologist in his or her fieldwork to be a descriptive relativist about some things that typically concern the philosopher (e.g., ethical...

There are two formal sides to the color debate, the universalist and the relativist. The universalist side claims that the biology of all human beings is...

interpretations between whether Zhuangzi was a radical skeptic and/or a relativist. The Peng bird can either be construed as an image of freedom, even the...

am)) Is time travel possible? Into the lair of the relativist (a look at and analysis of relativist claims, mainly ethical relativity) Could a machine...

with relativists because they have noticed the influence of cultural variations on rational arguments. In other words, the anthropologist or relativist overemphasizes...

scholars never formally advanced any such hypothesis. A strong version of relativist theory was developed from the late 1920s by the German linguist Leo Weisgerber...

in what characterizes anthropology: dissatisfaction with the cultural relativist perspective, reaction against cartesian dualisms which obstructs progress...

Mathematical relativists seek to understand the nature of singularities and the fundamental properties of Einstein's equations, while numerical relativists run...

essayistic in approach. Certain scholars consequently classify Becker as a "relativist." This "relativism" was more akin to "pragmatism" ("pragmatic relativism")...

Norman Levitt has identified White as "the most magisterial spokesman" for relativist and postmodernist historiography, where "[w]hen one particular narrative...

innovations involves a strong dedication to relativism, Latour argues. The relativist researcher "learns the actors' language," records what they say about...

the last 40 years were dominated by social constructivist and cognitive relativist theories of science. Following Quine and Duhem, subsequent theories emphasized...

conceptions can be classified into verificationist theories, perspectivist or relativist theories, and pragmatic theories. Verificationism is based on verifying...

the development of microwear analysis some thirty years ago. Opponents argue that a hermeneutic approach is too relativist and that their own interpretations...

privileging orthodoxy, presents difficulties in constructing an historical analysis independent of the often biased and polemical views of regular medical...

a philosophical character, expounding ideas that are now described as relativist, existentialist, and sceptical. For example, he expresses a subjectivistic...

and so on are important for many people. Nevertheless, he rejects the relativist interpretation of this situation – that in modernity, scientific knowledge...