[MD] Salami & Wisdom ?

[david buchanan]

Marsha said:
Just for the record, I still say the truth of knowledge, which is static patterns of value, is still relative to immediate experience.


dmb says:

According to my computer's dictionary, the term "relative" has seven different definitions. Four of them are adjectives. Three of them are nouns. None of them refers to "relativism". In your sentence above, the term "relative" is used to mean that static patterns are "related" to immediate experience or that concepts exist in "relation" to immediate experience. If you mean to say that concepts are derived from experience, I'd agree.
Unfortunately, that has nothing to do with relativism. As the little joke about me and my cousin being related to each other was meant to indicate, as the explanation about panrelationalism was meant to indicate, relativism is NOT merely a claim that one thing is related to another - whether than relation is genetic or conceptual or anything else. That's just not what relativism means. That's just not how people use the term. Well, not informed people anyway.
It's hard to me to believe that you are really THAT confused about what the word means. Don't take my word for it. Look it up.


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