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Relationalism vs Relativism - What's the difference?

relationalism | relativism |

As nouns the difference between relationalism and relativism

is that relationalism is (physics) the idea that time and space are not real objects, but merely orderings of real objects while relativism is (uncountable|philosophy) the theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.

relationalism

English

Noun

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  • (physics) The idea that time and space are not real objects, but merely orderings of real objects

    • See also

    * on Wikipedia

    relativism

    English

    (wikipedia relativism)

    Noun

  • (uncountable, philosophy) The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
  • (countable, philosophy) A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
  • * 2008 , Paul Boghossian, “Replies to Wright, MacFarlane and Sosa,” Philosophical Studies , vol. 141, no. 3, p. 413:
    • Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism' about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing ' relativisms drawn from physics.

    See also

    * alternativism * pragmatism