[MD] Rorty's Relativism

[Steve Peterson]

Rorty says:
"Relativism" is the view that every belief on a certain topic, or 
perhaps about any topic, is as good as every other. No one holds this 
view. Except for the occasional cooperative freshman, one cannot find 
anybody who says that two incompatible opinions on an important topic 
are equally good. The philosophers who get called "relativists" are 
those who say that the grounds for choosing between such opinions are 
less algorithmic than had been thought.

[. . .]

So the real issue is not between people who think that one view is as 
good as another and people who do not. It is between those think our 
culture, or purposes, or intuitions, cannot be supported except 
conversationally, and people who still hope for other sorts of support. 
(Consequences of Pragmatism, U. of Minnesota Press, 1982, pp. 166-167.)