Posted: Feb 25, 2012 1:46 pm
One problem with people who make relativistic assertions is that it is often not a consistent position that they actually hold, but a rhetorical weapon that the philosopher Stephen Law calls "Going Nuclear".
I'm certainly not suggesting that is necessarily what is happening in this thread, but it is important to distinguish between those who genuinely hold a consistent and coherent relativist position and those who use it as a "get out of jail free card" when they find themselves on the losing side of a rational argument.
I'm certainly not suggesting that is necessarily what is happening in this thread, but it is important to distinguish between those who genuinely hold a consistent and coherent relativist position and those who use it as a "get out of jail free card" when they find themselves on the losing side of a rational argument.