Are facts trustworthy? |Simon Blackburn, Sophie Grace Chappell and Anandi Hattiangadi
Philosophy For Our Times
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Plato and Protagoras, Relativism and Theotetus
Sophy grace: Relativism makes it look like everything is a viewpoint, and there's nothing underlying the viewpoints. But there are lots of truths about viewpoints, which explain what we can see from them. And i'm not quite sure that i can piece this together as an argument that plato himself makes, but i think it's an argment worth thinking about. I suppose one might worry that's a bit circular. Were bedridin facts in terms of what is true? Are you satisfied with that general way of categorizing it? You know? It doesn't a on aa heart, we that's it.
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