Few philosophers have been tempted to be relativists about absolutely everything—although, we are told, there have been some notable exceptions (Protagoras). Many philosophers, however, have been tempted to be relativists about specific domains of discourse, especially about those domains that have a normative character. Gilbert Harman, for example, has defended a relativistic view of morality,...

We live an age of cultural relativism that asks how universal moral obligation can be justified. Immanuel Kant took up this challenge. His arguments can be reconstructed in a way that makes sense today.

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues deflationism about entails the denial of If sound, Horwich’s argument entail relativism is incompatible any conception our ordinary predicate according which there some sort equivalence between a ground-language claim p and corresponding...

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The philosophical hermeneutics is able to change the Brazilian Judiciary because of the understanding of the characteristics of the human being. It is impossible for humans, to be invested in the function of being a judge, making absolutely neutral decisions, but the philosophical hermeneutics can assist the judge making impartial decisions, based on the federal constitution. The normative lega...

1. Semantic typology – Semantic typology is the crosslinguistic study of semantic categorization – the search for universals and dimensions of variation in the meanings expressed across languages. For example, suppose you see a bee flying into a house. A native speaker of Yucatec Maya might describe this event as follows: (1) Táantik uy=óok-ol hun-túul kàab ich le=nah=o’ RECENT it-enter-ASPECT ...