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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique

3857	Defeat relativism by emphasising truth and reference, not meaning [Newton-Smith]
	Full Idea: The challenge of incommensurability can be met once it is realised that in comparing theories the notions of truth and reference are more important than that of meaning.
	From: W.H. Newton-Smith (The Rationality of Science [1981], I.6)