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Relativism is a family of ideas in philosophy: that right and wrong, or true and false, are not fixed for everyone in every place, and that you can only judge them from inside a culture, a time, or a point of view. The tidy school-book line is “nothing is absolutely true.” Though actually, philosophers argue about which kind they mean — moral relativism (about good and bad), cultural relativism (about how we look at other societies), or ideas about knowledge and truth. Some people use relativism as a complaint, as if it meant “anything goes.” That is looser than how careful writers use it. The word belongs in classrooms, essays, and serious talk, not in the market. Do not mix it up with Einstein’s relativity, which is a theory in physics about space and time, not a belief about right and wrong.
組成relative + -ism (the ending that names a belief or system of ideas).
同家族的字
- relativethe adjective this is built from: depending on something else
- relativitysame first half, different ending; relativity in physics is Einstein’s theory, not this belief
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
relativismnoun
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
- We thus reach a position of extreme relativism: different 'truths' may be useful in different historical situations, and it is quite possible that any truth is valid only for a particular epoch or social class.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesA specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
- Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing relativisms drawn from physics.
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