Relatywizm teoretyczny i relatywizm normatywny
Theoretical Relativism and Normative Relativism

Summary/Abstract: In the article two ways of understanding cognitive relativism are presented: as a thesis about equivalence (theoretical relativism) and as a thesis about the arbitrariness of choice (normative relativism). According to the former way of understanding, relativism is the thesis saying that all, including mutually contradicting, views on a given subject are equally true (in one version) or justified (in another); and according to the latter one it is a thesis saying that any proposition on a given subject may be accepted. These two ways of understanding cognitive relativism are not systematically analyzed or used in contemporary debates. However, even a preliminary analysis of these theses and relations between them shows that there are interesting problems hidden behind them, which means that they are worth being considered in a broader range than it has been done up till now.

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