Quadrant, January 1st, 2000
RELATIVISM is the idea that where there is a disagreement about matters of fact, there is really no fact or truth of the matter. Anybody's opinion is as good as anybody else's. There is quite a lot of relativism about these days, as there was in the days of the Greeks. My own view is that this is a false and pernicious doctrine. In the days when I used to lecture to the first-year philosophy students at Sydney University, it was put to me by Michael Devitt that I ought to include some criticism of relativism in my course. I decided to include a discussion of Plato's critique, in his dialogue ...
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