ABSTRACT
In ‘Relativism and Reflexivity’ (this journal, Vol. 11(3) (September 2003), pp. 319–39), Robert Lockie presents a version of the self-refutation (by formal reductio) argument against relativism. Section I below gives a sketch of Lockie’s argument. Section II presents three problems concerning the presuppositions behind Lockie’s argument, and it is argued that the last of these problems is fatal to his reductio. Section III discusses another assumption, one that most attempts to construct a reductio of relativism have in common.
