TheOtherDave comments on [Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We? - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 September 2012 12:25PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (627)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 27 September 2012 03:15:47PM 0 points [-]

I'm not really sure why the distinction between contextualism and relativism makes a difference.

Comment author: pragmatist 27 September 2012 04:57:37PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: thomblake 27 September 2012 04:46:08PM 0 points [-]

Basically, philosophers are sufficiently agreed on epistemology that both mean basically the same thing for the lay person's understanding. There's even a species of invariantism called "subject-sensitive invariantism" that is indistinguishable from contextualism to the uninitiated.