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
Then they infer how being a relativist might affect a person’s behavior.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 16, 2019
If the relativist account of science were correct, every major paradigm shift ought to be accompanied by bitter disputes between competing intellectual communities: indeed it was Kuhn’s view that this is exactly what happens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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