Relativism
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Its [relative] [to the] person asking [the definition]..
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The doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.
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A [worldview] common in the West (but held by very few philosophers) which people arive at after very little actual thought. Consists of the notion that there is no single [objective] truth, and that no one can say anything is true.
Ironically, no one who adheres to [relativism] can say that relativism is true. -
[Intellectual] [laziness].
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a very common belief these days. revolves mainly around the idea, what is right for you isnt right for me. denies that there is truth at all. many relativists realize that [mathematical] [truths] cannot be disproven, but they still susbscribe to the idea that multiple opposing ideas can exist in the same [realm] and still produce no conflicts.
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the belief that truth and right and wrong can only be judged in relation to other things and that nothing can be true or right in all situations
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