Example sentences for: relativism

How can you use “relativism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not only did it promote freedom "more than any statesman or soldier did" by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of "relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics," influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.

  • The perpetrator of Sokal's Hoax teams up with another physicist to debunk what they call "postmodern relativism."

  • "Inappropriate" easily outstripped "evil," a word that appeared in the Congressional Record a mere 250 times, though--William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and other denouncers of moral relativism take note-- it still lagged behind "wrong," which appeared in excess of 999 times (the CR search engine doesn't count beyond three digits).

  • Fish's sin, according to his journalistic critics, is moral relativism.

  • Berlin's "objective pluralism" combined a hatred of both absolutism and relativism with a nationalist's love for England and Israel.


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