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Relativism, Truth, and Reality"
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age 8th edition by Theodore Schick
It requires a solid reading of chapter 8. In the section entitled "EVALUATE THESE CLAIMS..." on page 316 in your textbook, take your time and answer two questions (the point value is 14.5 points per question). Be thoughtful about how you use your book to assist you. I am not concerned about the word count, but I am concerned about how thorough you are.
1. Even if truth were manufactured by society, it wouldn't be any easier to find, for there is no single society to which each of us clearly belongs. Suppose, for example, that you were a black Jewish communist living in Bavaria during the 1940s. Which would be your real society? The blacks? The Jews? The communists? The Bavarians?"
2. "To account for individual and social fallibility, the conceptual relativist must maintain that simply believing something to fall under a certain concept isn't enough to make it so. There must be a fact of the matter as to how it should be classified, and that fact can't be determined solely by belief. What, then, is it determined by?"
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