| According to the relativist, belief and conviction fly out of the window because truth is, as it were, too cheap to care about. |
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| The second, more familiar apology excuses him for being only a relativist animal of his times. |
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| The final part offers an illustration of how embracing alethic functionalism may help the relativist. |
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| Early on, evolutionist ideas were challenged by more particularist and relativist notions of anthropology. |
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| If this is how you define truth, then it would seem that you and the alethic relativist are talking about two completely different concepts. |
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| This omission is, I suspect, tied to Naugle's less than satisfactory presentation of Wittgenstein, whom he dismisses as a relativist and fideist. |
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| So our concern is not to answer the relativist by some cunning intellectual or metaphysical trick. |
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| In practice, being a pragmatist is much more like being a realist than a crude relativist. |
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| In philosophical terms, deconstruction is a form of relativist scepticism in the tradition of Nietzsche. |
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| We reject, also, the cultural relativist view according to which these basic human rights are not appropriate for certain nations or peoples. |
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| This requires approaches that are neither religiously relativist nor religiously exclusivist. |
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| Heraclitus was a dialectician, while Zeno was a metaphysical relativist. |
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| Nevertheless, the historical development of human rights demonstrates that the relativist critique cannot be wholly or axiomatically dismissed. |
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| I'm not a moral relativist, and I find such a world view to be compassionless and callous, if not outright cruel. |
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| If one is a true relativist, why would he or she care if someone holds to an absolutist point of view? |
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| This transition of the Russian position occurred in parallel with the reintroduction of a more relativist vision of human rights. |
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| The relativist must therefore hold that relativism is both true and false. |
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| In this respect, the relativist is like the philosophical sceptic. |
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| These questions lead back to the discussion about positivist vs. relativist approaches and directly affect the types of criteria selected for determining quality of life. |
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| Unlike Gilbert Harman or Richard Rorty, Fisher is no relativist, and unlike, say, Charles Stevenson, he is no logical positivist. |
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| Personally, I'm proud to be a moral relativist. |
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| If we respect our senses, and avoid asking them more than what they can tell us, they will be immensely more reliable than the bad skeptical and relativist philosophers. |
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| Faced with a relativist liberalism that rejects the existence of absolute truth, she advocated a pluralist liberalism which allows the public sharing of certain values, including religious values. |
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| Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character, expounding ideas that are now described as relativist, existentialist, and sceptical. |
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| An outgrowth of both evolutionary and relativist approaches was the development of museums as institutions to collect, conserve and display artifacts of Aboriginal cultures. |
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| We are currently suffering the consequences of this weak thought, consisting of an entirely relativist approach, in which it has become practically impossible to even talk about values and beliefs. |
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| While radical proponents of both objectivist and relativist creeds may be found, most mainstream scholars tend to fall somewhere between the extremes. |
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| As a self-taught politician, he had come to know what was right and what was wrong, and said so in terms that shocked an increasingly relativist world. |
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| Had Gajdusek and Zigas adopted a relativist stance and sat idly by while the Fore's demise continued, I do not think they could have properly called themselves caring and ethical scientists or human beings. |
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| Unfortunately, today the family is often threatened by a selfish, relativist culture directed exclusively towards short-lived material well-being. |
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