If revelation requires a receiving agent, then there is a temptation to "relativize" it to that receiver. From Wordnik.com. [Benedict and Bonaventure] Reference
I don't mean to relativize any such act of acting out with a minor. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002] Reference
First interpretation: if we relativize the probabilities in question to. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Please, I don't mean to minimize that in any way nor relativize one act against another act. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002] Reference
However, what I've noticed is that it can relativize its value very easily when it's convenient. From Wordnik.com. [Saddam has been executed] Reference
Modern anti-realists tend not to be theists and tend not to relativize existence to any single mind. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic Challenges to Realism] Reference
Buddhism does not relativize everything to the point that all phenomena lose their conventional identities. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 12 Advanced Points concerning Seeing That a Tantric Master Is a Buddha] Reference
Because they both relativize certainty to a particular subject, they make possible the following situation. From Wordnik.com. [Certainty] Reference
REES: Well, I think that certainly he would accept that it is wrong, but it's very interesting how they relativize (ph) that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2005] Reference
Second interpretation: if we don't relativize the argument to B (or anything else), the relevant application of Bayes's will be. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Its message is that once we relativize things to frameworks, there are facts about morality, epistemic justification, truth, or the like. From Wordnik.com. [Relativism] Reference
Some are better than others and the desire of anthropologists to relativize everything is not all that compelling when it moves, as here, to apologia for tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote] Reference
There was a touch of insanity in both men, and I don't mean that as a way to dismiss or relativize them, it's just an observation perfectly sane men also commit terrible crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: John Brown: The Transcendentalists' terrorist.] Reference
And even a stronger version of judgment internalism might be consistent with various subjectivist cognitivist theories, especially those which relativize the truth of moral judgments to individual agents. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
To be even, we might add "Recipe for Liberalism" Take 1 John 4, memorize, relativize any inconvenient passages by assuring us it was "only cultural," use as means of legitimizing post-60's liberal morality. From Wordnik.com. [Recipe for Biblical Literalism] Reference
This led its practitioners to learn Greek, which caused them to be seduced by Hellenism, and to relativize the message of Christianity; but Hellenism as a philosophy of life has failed, and the humanities with it. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbing the Peace] Reference
Once reason was thoroughly socialized and made historical, historicist skepticism emerged at the same time, attempting to relativize philosophical claims about norms and reason to historically and culturally variable forms of life. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
Geach's focus at this point is on the need to relativize an I-predicable to a theory T. Geach then immediately saddles the friend of absolute identity with the view that for "real identity" we need not bring in the ideology of a definite theory. From Wordnik.com. [Relative Identity] Reference
"This is not the first attempt to relativize and set equal blame," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Durangoherald.com] Reference
For one, it's impossible to compare, or relativize, the level of competition. From Wordnik.com. [FanHouse Main] Reference
How do they forget (or relativize) Kosovo or Iraq, how do they sideline the deliberate Georgian aggression?. From Wordnik.com. [European Tribune] Reference
Since values are necessarily embedded in a culture, does not the inclusion of such rights relativize them to specific cultures?. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
David HH: If I understand you correctly, you only relativize the times, with the date headers being hard-coded to your time zone. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0] Reference
The problem is, how does one employ language in such a way that it does not relativize the absolute and reduce it to a "figure of speech?". From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
Tölg, however, sought to defend himself on German radio, telling Deutschlandfunk that he was not trying to relativize Germany's World War II crimes. From Wordnik.com. [SPIEGEL ONLINE - Schlagzeilen] Reference
Tölg's position, on the other hand, seems to be an attempt to relativize Nazi crimes by comparing them to transgressions committed by others -- a taboo in Germany. From Wordnik.com. [SPIEGEL ONLINE - Schlagzeilen] Reference
"It was a step taken at a high level to relativize anti-Semitism and the Holocaust," Stephan Kramer said, adding that such remarks make religious dialogue between Jews and Catholics impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
It’s humor at it’s best and people who go crazy because of something like that should be locked up and given a book on “How to relativize life” …. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - hehe. Sony haters get creative.] Reference
(Alternatively, we could relativize the notion of narrow content to a set of possibilities; the more possibilities the set includes, the fewer contents will count as narrow. From Wordnik.com. [Narrow Mental Content] Reference
(unless we simply relativize moral truths to various possible ecologies, taking such truths to reduce to facts about effective genetic propagation ” though as we saw in section 3, such a move has little moral plausibility). From Wordnik.com. [Morality and Evolutionary Biology] Reference
Moral relativize that, leftists. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
(Why relativize to context and time?. From Wordnik.com. [Propositional Attitude Reports] Reference
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