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Tag Name "Relativist" (12)

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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
Edward Tufte
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It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.
Jacques Maritain
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
Karel Capek
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
Philip Johnson
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The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact the relativist sees only fetishes.
Simon Blackburn
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The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.
Simon Blackburn
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The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.
Henry Hyde
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I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.
Jerry Fodor
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Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.
Norman Geisler
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The hero can never be a relativist.
Richard M. Weaver
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The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.
Simon Blackburn
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Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.
Thomas Kuhn