This has been attempted by administering a survey in which the questions fall under two categories, dualist and relativist, which are shown to correspond to a greater or lesser extent to absolutist and fallibilist philosophies respectively. Dualism and relativism are discussed in detail both in connection with school mathematics and mathematicians' mathematics. Some hypotheses are put forward a...

the term paradigm has become a central issue in philosophy of science. increasing attention to paradigm in public administration, as a branch of social science, is also highlighted. this paper attempts to analysis seven paradigms in public administration research and to study ontological, epistemological, methodological, rhetorical and axiological assumptions of the each paradigm. finally, we b...

This paper argues that both the relativist and the pessimist critiques of the idea of progress are inadequate. Progress is defined as increase in global quality of life (QOL). Such QOL is intrinsically subjective, but not relative. It can be reliably measured through "life satisfaction"-type questions. The "World Database of Happiness" provides extensive data on social, economic and psychologic...

Marketing is as old as commerce but the discipline only emerged in the last century to support a new manager cadre: marketers. Marketing itself differs less than the various perspectives academics take of it. Marketing is also context dependent. The product, be it goods, services or service, may have only a small moderating impact on the fundamental logic of marketing. Increasing choice and com...

This paper considers the work of Martin Heidegger and its relation to situated cognition. The motivation for the paper springs from the perceived misconception that many educators have on situated cognition by applying situated learning strategies in a dualistic orientation, whereas situated cognition is fundamentally relativist (non-dualistic) in epistemology. Hence, we felt that the foundatio...

Abstract Some in the recent literature have claimed that a connection exists between Liar paradox and semantic relativism : view truth values of certain occurrences sentences depend on contexts at which they are assessed. Sagi (Erkenntnis 82(4):913–928, 2017) argues contextualist accounts committed to relativism, Rudnicki ?ukowski (Synthese 1–20, 2019) propose new account classify as relativist...

Abstract Early anthropological analyses of time produced Western vs. non-Western dichotomies time. Later on, anthropology gradually shifted from a modernist to relativist and postmodernist tones in the This shift is result criticism on dichotomization within discipline that considered such as West-centric or ethno-centric. Additionally, it argued here anthropology’s interest studying social cha...

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...