[Revised entry by Maria Baghramian and J. Adam Carter on January 10, 2025.
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Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. More precisely, “relativism” covers views which maintain that – at a high level of abstraction – at least some class of things have the properties they have (e.g., beautiful, morally good, epistemically justified) not simpliciter, but only relative…

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