0 someone who believes that truth and right and wrong can only be judged in relation to other things and that nothing can be true or right in all situations:
1 based on the belief that truth and right and wrong can only be judged in relation to other things and that nothing can be true or right in all situations:
Relativists hold that religious texts written centuries ago must be interpreted within the cultural and historical context of their times.
She was a relativist who believed truth was dispensable.
But we have not done well, even by that relativist standard.
The adoption of a relativist position may lead to contradictions.
These three arguments have a relativist tendency, in the sense that they question our capacity to achieve total and final truth.
Anxiety about the relativist abyss in which 'all pasts are equal' has thwarted efforts to evaluate alternatives to 'objective science'.
From a leftist point of view, these are matters of right and wrong, and are not about relativist concerns.
