You are in charge of keeping the drinks cold for a picnic. you have a styrofoam box that is filled with cola, water and you plan to put some 0 c ice in it. your task it to buy enough ice to put in the box at 6am so that the temperature stays at 0 c until the picnic starts at 6pm. you don't want to buy too mych ice because that means that you'll have less money to spend on food and other picnic items. you plan on keeping cold six 6-liter bottles of cola. how much ice will you need? today will be beautifully sunny: a perfect day for a picnic. the temperature will start out at 10 c at 6am and then the temperature will steadily incfrease, reaching 35 c at 6pm. it will be partially cloudy with a mild breeze from the west. assume: 1. coolers dimensions are .4m x .4m x .4m2. thickness of coller is 2cm3. temperature of cola when put in cooler is 20 c4. treat cola as water (specific heat and density)

relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. more precisely, “relativism” covers views which maintain that—at a high level of abstraction—at least some class of things have the properties they have (e.g., beautiful, morally good, epistemically justified) not simpliciter, but only relative to a given framework of assessment (e.g., local cultural norms, individual standards), and correspondingly, that the truth of claims attributing these properties holds only once the relevant framework of assessment is specified or supplied. relativists characteristically insist, furthermore, that if something is only relatively so, then there can be no framework-independent vantage point from which the matter of whether the thing in question is so can be established.

relativism has been, in its various guises, both one of the most popular and most reviled philosophical doctrines of our time. defenders see it as a harbinger of tolerance and the only ethical and epistemic stance worthy of the open-minded and tolerant. detractors dismiss it for its alleged incoherence and uncritical intellectual permissiveness. debates about relativism permeate the whole spectrum of philosophical sub-disciplines. from ethics to epistemology, science to religion, political theory to ontology, theories of meaning and even logic, philosophy has felt the need to respond to this heady and seemingly subversive idea. discussions of relativism often also invoke considerations relevant to the very nature and methodology of philosophy and to the division between the so-called “analytic and continental” camps in philosophy. and yet, despite a long history of debate going back to plato and an increasingly large body of writing, it is still difficult to come to an agreed definition of what, at its core, relativism is, and what philosophical import it has. this entry attempts to provide a broad account of the many ways in which “relativism” has been defined, explained, defended and criticized.

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