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| 20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? |
| Full Idea: How could what is bitter for us be sweet and sour for others, if there is not some determinate nature for them? | |||
| From: Theophrastus (On the Senses [c.321 BCE], 70) | |||
| A reaction: The remark is aimed at Democritus. This is part of the general question of how you can even talk about relativism, without attaching stable meanings to the concepts employed. |