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April 18, 2012

"Relativism" is the view that every belief on a certain topic, or perhaps about any topic, is as good as every other. No one holds this view. Except for the occasional cooperative freshman, one cannot find anybody who says that two incompatible opinions on an important topic are equally good. The philosophers who get called "relativists" are those who say that the ground for choosing between such opinions are less algorithmic than had been thought.


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Posted by amin at April 18, 2012 8:58 PM