Abstract

Relativism about a property P is the thesis that any statement of the form “Entity E has P” is ill formed, while statements of the form “E has P relative to S” are well formed, and true for appropriate E and S. Relativism about P therefore entails the claim that P is a relation rather than a one‐place predicate. In the principal forms of relativism, the variable S ranges over cultures, world views, conceptual schemes, practices, disciplines, paradigms, styles, standpoints, or goals.