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Ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'Dissoi Logoi - on Double Arguments' and 'Metaphysics'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism

584	If truth is relative it is relational, and concerns appearances relative to a situation [Aristotle]

585	If relativism is individual, how can something look sweet and not taste it, or look different to our two eyes? [Aristotle]

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

1560	Lydians prostitute their daughters to raise a dowery, but no Greek would marry such a girl [Anon (Diss)]

1559	Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment [Anon (Diss)]

1561	Anything can be acceptable in some circumstances and unacceptable in others [Anon (Diss)]

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

576	If the majority had diseased taste, and only a few were healthy, relativists would have to prefer the former [Aristotle]