Boghossian suggests two sources for the continuing appeal of this view. The first is a postcolonial unwillingness to criticize cultures as inferior. Here, he notes, Equal Validity is a two-edged sword: “for if the powerful can’t criticize the oppressed, because the central epistemological categories are inexorably tied to particular perspectives, it also follows that the oppressed can’t critici...

can obtain, and there is none who does not appreciate the work they have done for so long in alleviating sickness and in preventing disease. Many of us have personal knowledge that home is the worst possible place in which to be ill, and that sickness in hospital is more tolerable than it is elsewhere ; but that is no reason for the hysterical outbursts that are seen occasionally in the lay Pre...