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relativism

noun

rel·​a·​tiv·​ism ˈre-lə-ti-ˌvi-zəm How to pronounce relativism (audio)
1
a
: a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and the conditions of knowing
b
: a view that ethical truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them
2
relativist noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself. Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022 Claremont students revered America’s founding, and saw moral relativism and an increasingly powerful government bureaucracy as existential threats. Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2022 If divine truth is single and universal, then multiplicity and relativism are the signatures of evil. Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022 Postmodernism, however, has moved us further, from moral to cognitive relativism, in which even factual observation is regarded as subjective. Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 For many years now, societies have been living with moral relativism, which asserts the essential subjectivity of all value systems. Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 Del Noce indicts the sweeping changes of secularism, eroticism, and relativism as the inevitable outcomes of Marx’s dialectical victory over religious and liberal foes. Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 And the fallout from sociologism, i.e., relativism, remains evident across Western nations, as comprehensive claims about the true and the good are reduced to race, class, and gender. Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 Yet his pitch has hardened into litany: technological determinism, political pessimism, cultural relativism, and so on. Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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