The concept of “decolonization” has been widely and erroneously used to the point that it lost its meaning. Whenever decolonization is invoked, there seems be disagreement between universalist relativist camps. While debate continues, one can barely imagine a middle position where both camps could find synthesis. So question resonates from this is, does logic involves having relativistic approa...

In a series of recent papers, John MacFarlane (2003, 2005a, 2005b) has formulated a version of truth-relativism, and argued for its application in some cases—future contingents, knowledge attributions and epistemic modals among them. Mark Richard (2004) also defends a version of relativism, which he applies to vagueness-inducing features of the semantics of gradable adjectives; Richard thinks t...

Abstract Despite its potential implications for the objectivity of scientific knowledge, claim that “scientific instruments are perspectival” has received little critical attention. I show this is best understood as highlighting dependence on different perspectives. When closely analyzed, instead constituting a novel epistemic challenge, can be exploited to mount strategies resolving two old pr...

the danger of qualitative research methodologies falling into the fatal trap of relativism and null (non-existent) reality in an honest and worthy pursuit to emancipate human knowledge and understanding from the dominant account offered by quantitative methodologies is a serious one. it should be taken as even more serious for research communities who have just begun to practice breaking away f...

The aim of this paper is to examine the kind of evidence that might be adduced in support of relativist semantics of a kind that have recently been proposed for predicates of personal taste, for epistemic modals, for knowledge attributions and for other cases. I shall concentrate on the case of taste predicates, but what I have to say is easily transposed to the other cases just mentioned. I sh...

In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and conditionals has been largely driven by cases in which seemingly felicitous assessments of utterances are...

In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and conditionals has been largely driven by cases in which seemingly felicitous assessments of utterances are...

discussion of the many faces of relativism occupies a highly prominent place in the epistemological literature. protagoras in ancient greece and nelson goodman in the modern period are two most notable proponent of relativism. in the present article, i discuss and explain relativistic approaches of this two important relativist. i will first briefly define and review some faces of relativism. t...

Several authors have argued that a range of phenomena calls for a relativisation of propositional truth to contexts of assessment or, more generally, perspectives. I want to defend the more orthodox view that whether a proposition is true depends only on whether the represented states of affairs obtain. I offer an alternative account of the relativity suggested by the data, factual relativism, ...