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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 |