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for cultural relativism C ultural relativism long a key concept in anthropology asserts that each culture has its own values and practices Carolyn FluehrLobban Chronicle of Higher Education. Quines article Truth by Convention is an attack on the explanation of a prioricity in terms of analyticity which takes as its starting point the nature of de64257nition Indeed Quine claims that this view of mathematics and logic hardly makes sense Introduction That the current jurisprudential scene is deeply and one might say irredeemably fractioned would be no news to anyone even remotely familiar with contemporary analytical legal philosophy The moment someone utters words like interpretati This has led some to endorse conventionalism the view that the facts of the matter partly depend on our conventions and that disagreements persist because both sides to the dispute employ different conventions What does it mean to say that the facts Heres another try at explaining his argument in simpler terms According to Ayer all a priori truths are knowable on the basis of knowing our linguistic conventions So lets take as an example of an a priori truth 1 If grass is green then grass is gre Aporia vol. 22 no. 2—2012 ATTHEWACDONALD Matthew Macdonald is majoring in philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2013. His interests include epistemology, value theory for. cultural relativism. C. ultural relativism, long a key concept in anthropology, asserts that… each culture has its own values and practices.. -Carolyn . Fluehr-Lobban. . . Chronicle of Higher Education. Moral Conventionalism. : There are no objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “My society approves of x” and statements of the form “x is wrong/bad/immoral” mean “My society disapproves of x”.. “cultural relativism”. Cultural . relativism, long a key concept . in anthropology. , asserts that… each culture has its own values and practices.. -Carolyn . Fluehr-Lobban. , . Chronicle of Higher Education. against. the . hitler. problem. If Conventionalism is true, then what Hitler said was true.. What Hitler said wasn’t true.. [So] Conventionalism isn’t true.. the progress . problem. If Conventionalism is true, then what MLK . a. identify individuals who are attempting to lie or sabotage a test. . b. identify groups of test items that co-occur.. c. identify items that are difficult to answer. d. analyze and score responses to projective tests..