Relativism seems to me an obvious consequence of a magic-free worldview but to others an obvious result of anti-rationalist quasi-mysticism. When one think of this debate or clash of intuitions one can't help but wonder: why is everyone apart from Liam Kofi Bright entirely wrong?
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OMG Reza, Liam is saying that 'magic' (i.e. realist metaphysics) is bad and relativism (i.e. carnap/hempel style conventionalism) is the only alternative, and therefore good
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But the whole thing is that people like Carnap and Goodman are actually not relativists in any solid sense. They are anti-foundationalist and pro-methodological diversification. That has nothing to do with relativism in the way we use the term nowadays.
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