Relativity and Degrees of Relationality

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Spencer II, John Haven
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Abstract
Some things are relative. Left and right are relative to spatial orientation, for example, and legality is relative to jurisdiction. We also wonder about more controversial cases. Is morality relative to culture? Is color relative to type of perceiver? In this essay I am not concerned with any particular relativistic thesis. Rather, I am concerned with the prior question: What is it for one thing to be relative to another?
Date issued
2016-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104942
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Journal
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Citation
Spencer, Jack. “Relativity and Degrees of Relationality.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92.2 (2016): 432–459.
Version: Original manuscript
ISSN
00318205
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