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Global Relativism and Self‐Refutation
In Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 9–30 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Self ‐ Refutation Defining Relativism about a Feature F Relativism about Truth Defining Global Relativism Difficulties with Unrestricted Global Relativism Difficulties with Global Indexical Relativism Applying Global Relativism to Itself Self ‐ Refutation Again References.Author's Profile
characterizing relativism ‐ global relativism and self‐refutation relativism, or global relativism ‐ “self‐refuting” self‐refutation dialectical notion of self ‐ refutation (peritrope) ‐ originating in early Hellenistic period self‐contradictory claim made by Would‐be‐Socrates ‐ that he knows that he knows nothing fourth notion of self‐refutation, bound up not specifically with norms governing a particular speech act question of whether relativism is self‐refuting ‐ in any of the four senses relativity in question ‐ arguably of a conceptual kind defining global relativism global relativism, intuitively, the thesis that everything is relative
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