| 词汇 | example_english_relativist |
| 释义 | Examples of relativistThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Anxiety about the relativist abyss in which 'all pasts are equal' has thwarted efforts to evaluate alternatives to 'objective science'. From a leftist point of view, these are matters of right and wrong, and are not about relativist concerns. The purported mistake of the relativist is taking his theory about ethics to imply a stance within ethics. The identical practical problem faces relativist and objectivist alike. This would help constitute a humane, reasonably relativist (but still reasoning) mode of new historicism. For the moral relativist can believe that even though there are many "moralities," each one is static. Although relativist positions are getting more attention, he believes that it is crucial that research continue on universal features of language. Both the terms relativist and constructionist seem dogged by similar problems. I would not, however, want to call myself a relativist. The problem with the relativist path just outlined is that, in the guise of promoting mutual respect, it renders real respect impossible. The term 'relativist' is too oppositional, inviting, as it does, an exclusive emphasis on meaning as relational. Note that this definition accommodates both a relativist and absolutist position. It is precisely in the practices of globalisation that a wider acceptance of a relativist position is emerging. An honest radical relativist has no reason to dwell on such issues as language acquisition and language deficits. The anti-post-processualists often oppose the alleged relativist methodology of 'anything goes'. The relativist says that arguing about ethics is like arguing whether a vase of flowers appears in the mirror in an empty room. You described the history of the discipline in its social context but without implying a relativist position. I guess you feel a more relativist stance would be politically impotent? Someone can be a moral relativist and still believe that morality is static. A second problem also confronts the relativist version of constructivism. Such an interpretative stance does not always sit comfortably with the importance now placed upon context and relativist appraisal in the history of cartography. Are we to adopt a culture-centered, relativist view on not only cultural but also ethical values? Many philosophers are nowadays ready to denounce both the strict, usually religion-based absolutism and the relativist positions often favored by anthropologists. There has been some argument among proponents about whether post-processual archaeology is either strongly or weakly relativist, or strongly constructivist, but matters remain inconclusive. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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