Relativism: a contemporary anthology
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Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which…
"Relativism was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Protagoras is famous for his claim that 'man is the measure of all things'. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines this and the work of Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus"--Provided by publisher.
Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do they manage to do so? What are the underlying facts of persistence? Do objects persist by being "wholly present" at all moments of time at which they exist? Or do they persist by having distinct "temporal segments"…
El relativismo es uno de los conceptos más antiguos -- y más polarizado. Ha cautivado a pensadores desde los días de Protagoras (que sustentó la noción) y Platón (que no lo hizo). El relativismo ha sido atacado por papas así como por otros líderes por estar fuera de las verdades…
