RELATIVISM AND MEANING What is Relative and What its relative to? Relativism presupposes some measure of realism. That we cannot talk without using language and think without using concepts. If there are no such things as concepts, beliefs, or modes of reasoning, then groups cannot differ with respect to their concepts, beliefs, or modes of reasoning. Some concepts, beliefs, and standards are much more central than others. But there is no absolute right or wrong. One point of view is ultimately as good as another. It just depends on your taste. Centrality is a functional property of concepts, beliefs, values, standards, and the like. It is a property they have because of the role they play in peoples thought and action, and the same concept or belief might be central for one group, peripheral for a second, and altogether lacking for a third. Centrality comes in degrees, and it would be unrewarding to try to draw a sharp line between central concepts and beliefs, on the one hand, and all the remaining concepts and beliefs, on the other.
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