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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

1634	Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine]
	Full Idea: Relativity has two components: to the choice of a background theory, and to the choice of how to translate the object theory into the background theory.
	From: Willard Quine (Ontological Relativity [1968], p.67)