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   Is everything Absolute?

   • We've all heard a disenchanted teenager claim that everything is relative and that there is no absolute morality or truth. Of course, there seems to be something wrong with that; isn't the relativity of everything then an absolute? Relativism has appeared throughout philosophy since the ancient Greek Sophists.

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   What if everything were relative?

   • If everything were relative, then there could be no science, no laws, no justice-- just opinion. Science exists, because it turns out there are absolutes in the universe-- truths which are the same regardless of your perspective. You might even say that science is simply about finding the truths that will still be true if you remove the scientist.

   Albert Einstein's theory of relativity describing absolute quantities

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   Is 'Everything is relative' true?

   • There is an immediate problem with understanding the claim: "everything is relative' is true". Quantifiers, like "everything" or "something" are often used in speech with a certain definitive scope.

   "Everything is relative" is true, because it's relative, as so is

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   What does it's all relative mean?

   • Does the phrase “It's all relative” mean that everything is quantifiable in terms of individual perception or opinion? In other words, we all have different opinions or viewpoints with regard to a topic or subject. Examples, to me, would be: I think it's cold out; he thinks it's actually quite mild.

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   Apr 6, 2013 · Does the phrase “It's all relative” mean that everything is quantifiable in terms of individual perception or opinion? In other words, we all have different opinions or viewpoints with regard to a topic or subject.

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   Feb 3, 2013 · Is everything relative? We know that things like taste in food and matters of etiquette are relative. But what about things like truth, knowledge, and morality? Are there absolute normative truths? John and Ken are joined by Paul Boghossian to tackle the question of moral relativism vs. moral absolutism in this episode of Philosophy Talk.

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   Sep 11, 2015 · Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them.

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   After all, in what sense is 'everything relative to everything' true (in the truth relativists sense—true, given the assessor's standard)? (10a) says "For all x , x is relative to x ". But what are the truth-conditions for everything being 'relative to' itself?

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   Relativism does not justify doing or believing in whatever you feel like; it says only that truth and morality are relative to something; this isn’t the same as saying “anything goes”! Others regard relativism as one of the greatest conceptual leaps forward of all time—especially scholars in sciences like anthropology, linguistics , and ...

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   Relativity-- the idea that everything is relative, right? Relative to your perspective, your upbringing, your age, your place, and orientation in space and time, except that plenty of things-- in fact, perhaps most things-- aren't relative.

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   If it is true, then the statement asserts an objective truth, and thus the claim that everything is relative is self-contradictory.