relativist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of relativist
Example Sentences
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All of these relativist tools have been on display in the last week.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
My brother accused me of being a moral relativist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023
Many people interpreted Dr. Latour’s position as relativist — as asserting that there was no such thing as objective truth.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Now she’s a young Oxford scholar, intrigued by the works of a pair of celebrated but sophistical thinkers: one a fanatical rationalist, the other a complete relativist.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2019
In the history of science literature it is generally taken for granted that Wittgenstein was a relativist.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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