[MD] Salami & Wisdom ?

[MarshaV]

>From Wiki:  

"The term (Relativism) often refers to truth relativism, which is the
doctrine that there are no absolute truths, i.e., that truth is always
relative to some particular frame of reference, such as a language or a
culture."  
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativism      


The MoQ support multiple truths.  Seems to me the frame of reference within
the MoQ would be the value.  








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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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