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>From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
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>> The only problem is that this particular formulation isn't what
>relativism
>> "really" means to most people. Indeed, as Fish stated, if the term
>did mean
>> that it would be just as accurate (and far less ambiguous) to call
>it
>> "serious thought."
>>
>> -- Luke
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>You mean relativism is a polysemous, floating signifier? :-)
>
>Ian
Like mylar balloons onto which we get to project our own theoretical obsessions without having to tie them down to any claims about reality?
Peter