Re: the death of relativISM
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: James Whitehead
Date: Mar 9, 2008 01:29

hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 8 mar, 22:38, "Milan" yahoo.com> wrote:
>> hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:4aa7d496-4833-4b3a-b1cd-1a1562ef85df@e31g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
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>>> it never existed, no matter how much mainstream right-wing ink was
>>> spilt on the matter, since it's not possible to be a relativist.
>>> having a relativist mind is an oxymoron. it's not possible, since
>>> having a mind means having priorities.
>>
>> And priorities are relative. So we are all relativists by default.
>>
>> regards
>> Milan
>
>
> all you have to do is compare something to something else, to place it
> relative to something else and you're committing a concrete absolute
> act based in a mind that does nothing other than mind. a conscious
> mind is never relativist, unless in certain mental illnesses.
> relativism as a strawman set up by panicking idiots and relative are
> plain to see, but it's impossible to be a relativist. so quite a few
> have screwed up.

both relativist and non-relativist have already undertaken assumptions
blindly in order to arrive at whatever position they think they have or
hold.
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