| Geoff, in your post, you mentioned this:
"On material issues, I'm all for science and relativism goes out the window. On social issues -- my speciality -- it's all relative."
I like to believe that I am both all for science and for relativism. I think that as far as we can measure things scientifically, they generally come out with the same results, but could you not argue that this is just because of our (as a human species) perspective? What is there were some other world where our accepted rules of science were totally different? I know I am speaking in terms of a lot of 'what ifs' here, but I dont like to deny anything as being possible.
I definately do agree with most of what you say, though. One of my favortie quotes actually is "If its real to me do I have to prove it to you? Its all relative."
As a side note, one of the only good arguments I have heard against relativism is that in believing in relativism, you are essentially denying that all other forms of belief are incorrect, which is counter to the most basic concept of relativism in the first place. |