A Summary of Epistemic Relativism

What if everything that you perceive— people, the world, the universe — was not as it seems? Relativism is the concept that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration. Defined narrowly, epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified belief. As the study of knowledge, epistemology is concerned with the following questions: What are the necessary and sufficient conditions of knowledge? What are its sources? What is its structure, and what are its limits ("Epistemology ")?

Epistemic relativism is when the facts used to establish the truth or falsehood of any statement are understood to be relative to the perspective of those proving or falsifying the proposition. While many people scoff at the very idea of epistemic relativism , what they are turning down is a way of thinking that could potentially help solve many of the world's problems by looking at the different perspectives involved. For example, when a boy is given the task of cleaning up his room, he has several options to choose from. However, he choose to shove most of the items in his room either under the bed or in the closet. This most likely because he has weighed out the pros, cons, and risks of each option and chose the one that seemed the most rational to him. It may not have been rational to his mother, but she has a more experiences

and a different thought process to make decisions from when challenged with the same problem. When the mother reprimands the child she must, change the boy's perspective on the option of shoving the items in his room under his bed. If she fails in this, or does not acknowledge this, the child will continue to choose the ration...

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