Lexicon of Arguments

 

I (c) 57
Relativity is not an >indeterminateness at all.
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I (e) 84
Consciousness exists in the plural, nature only in the singular. The fact that everyone has his point of view in the world is a harmless relativism, since it refers to a system of coordinates, namely, the one nature. >Reference systems.
>Conceptual relativism is more difficult because the common coordinate system is not easily identifiable.
I (e) 84ff
Davidson: for this reason the possible difference between individual and social thought systems is limited. If conceptual relativism goes so far as to assert that the conceptual schemata and moral systems, or the languages connected with them, can be fundamentally different - so far as they are incomprehensible and incommensurable to each other, I reject conceptual relativism.
Cultural Relativism: There are, of course, differences between periods or between cultures, or between people, but these are opposites which we can explain and grasp with sympathy and effort.
>Culture relativism, >Cultural differences.
I (e) 84 f
VsIncommensurability/DavidsonVsKuhn: The proceeding assumptions (of the >incommensurability) requests of us contradictorily, that we should place ourselves at a position which is outside our own thinking.
I (e) 84f
Relativism/Davidson: That everyone has his point of view in the world, is a harmless relativism because it refers to a system of coordinates, that is to say, a nature - conceptual relativism is more difficult because the common coordinate system is not easy to identify.