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Full Idea
Truth, says the cultural relativist, is culture-bound. But if it were, then he, within his own culture, ought to see his own culture-bound truth as absolute. He cannot proclaim cultural relativism without rising above it.
Gist of Idea
To proclaim cultural relativism is to thereby rise above it
Source
report of Willard Quine (works [1961]) by W.H. Newton-Smith - The Rationality of Science VII.10
Book Ref
Newton-Smith,W.H.: 'The Rationality of Science' [RKP 1981], p.181