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 · Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction. Our thoughts about the world are clearly influenced by such things as point of view, temperament, past experience and culture. However, some thinkers go much further and argue that everything that exists depends on us, arguing that 'even reality is relative'/5(1).  · For another thing, Kirk tends to run together relativity and relativism. Even if truth and reality do not vary, relativistically, with changes of theory, language-game, practice, etc., truth and reality may depend on (or be relative to) universal structures of human language, experience, or cognition. Relativity to universal human powers does not imply relativism, and is the more plausible Article Type: Book Review. 'Realists' argue that reality is independent of out thinking. 'Relativists' disagree, arguing that what there is depends on our point of view. Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction. Robert Kirk. Routledge, - Philosophy - pages.

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