SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Relativism, Descriptive Knowledge

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Klaas Kraay

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Note: i wont say a lot about chapter two in the textbook this week, but i will do so next week, much of this week is setting up chapter two. Declarative sentences express proposition, unlike imperative or interrogative sentences. (see. Involves two claims: there are truths in that subject area, what those truths are does not demand upon anyone"s beliefs about them (they are objective). What else are we realists about: math, biology, religion (iffy) There are no truths whatsoever in that subject area e. g: moral nihilism: the view that moral statements have no truth values (neither true or false). Why might this be an attractive position: keens you in the neutral. There are truths in the subject area: but . What the truths are depends upon (is relative to) what we (or someone) believes them to be. What the truths are depends upon individuals. That"s true for me / that"s my truths .