Mark,
Please! I think dmb should work harder to defend William James against this
slanderous, hate-mongering accusation:
“It was classic William James, imbued with a sense of the relativism of all
knowledge, a respect for and curiosity about alternative perspectives, an
instinct to analyze clearly and thoroughly but to develop a synthesis wherever
possible, and a conviction that the truth of any idea or thing is best
understood by observing its action in the world.
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/american/genius/william_bio.html)
Marsha
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:12 AM, 118 wrote:
> Marsha,
> You are really chomping at the bit! Give it a rest.
>
> Mark
>
> On Nov 21, 2011, at 2:07 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi dmb,
>>
>> PLEASE SUPPLY THE SOURCE FOR THE DEFINITION OF RELATIVISM (the one in the
>> nutshell) YOU SUPPLIED:
>>
>> Relativism is the view that truth is relative to the culture or the
>> individual, that there is no way to say that one truth is better than
>> another.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 3:59 PM, david buchanan wrote:
>>
>>> Calling Pirsig a relativist is not only philosophically incorrect and
>>> inconsistent with the drama of the story, it's also kind of insulting.
>>
>>
>> Marsha:
>> I have said I understand the MoQ to be epistemologically relativistic. You
>> keep conflating cultural relativism and epistemological relativism. The
>> quotes in Lila concerning the anthropologists are clearly about cultural
>> relativism. And you have not supplied the source for the definition you
>> provided.
>>
>> Here is a standard (sourced) definition of relativism:
>>
>>
>> noun Philosophy .
>> any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with
>> individuals and their environments.
>>
>> (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/relativism)
>>
>> Please note that it does not preclude judging which of competing truths may
>> be better.
>>
>
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