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My brother accused me of being a moral relativist.

Many people interpreted Dr. Latour’s position as relativist — as asserting that there was no such thing as objective truth.

I have never in my long career of chronicling major American social movements seen a successful one that used relativist language.

But for thirty years now a second generation of historians and philosophers of science has been attacking the claim that the Scientific Revolution vastly improved humankind’s ability to understand nature; adopting a relativist perspective, they have been unwilling to acknowledge that Newton was superior to Aristotle or Oresme, even if only in the sense that his theories made possible better predictions and new types of intervention.

The relativist thesis appears to be confirmed because evidence that would challenge it is never even considered.