Response to Anders Tolland's ‘Iterated Non-Refutation: Robert Lockie on Relativism' 1

It is claimed that Lockie’s argument requires attributing ‘some strong principle of tolerance and respect’ (Tolland (T), p. 239) to all relativists (to relativism as such). Roughly attributed to Lockie is this: Relativists must respect/tolerate the perspective of the absolutists, but not vice versa. So relativists must respect/tolerate a philosophy which diametrically opposes and undermines their own, whilst absolutists need not do this. So relativism is defeated.