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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

3868	To proclaim cultural relativism is to thereby rise above it [Quine, by Newton-Smith]
	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.
	From: report of Willard Quine (works [1961]) by W.H. Newton-Smith - The Rationality of Science VII.10