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These essays deal with the problem of relativism and, in particular, cultural relativism. If our society knows better than other societies, how do we know that it knows better? The claim to cognitive superiority is often restricted to the sciences - raising the second theme of the volume: the difference between human and natural sciences.Ernest Gellner is the author of 'Relativism and the Social Sciences', published 1985 under ISBN 9780521265300 and ISBN 0521265304.
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