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Relativism and cultural studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

David Mills
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Abstract

Issue two contained three pieces arguing against relativism: the view that what is true from one individual's or community's perspective might be false from another, that there is no ‘absolute’ truth on any issue. Here David Mills, an anthropologist, argues that, even if we are right to reject philosophical relativism, there is still value in embracing a methodological form of relativism.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Spring 2003 , pp. 79 - 82
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2003

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