Contra relativism

Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 51 (1):33-38 (2017)
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In the article the author presents an argument against the conver­gence of historical epistemology with relativism and defend the in­dependence of epistemic objects’ cognitive value from their socio-cultural genesis. The author make an assumption of the possibility of realization of historical epistemology as a project of search for the epistemological universals.

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10.5840/eps20175114

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Taras Aleksandrovich Varkhotov
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