ABSTRACT
Given a language and a view of what the world is like, one can, to be sure, pair off bits of the language with bits of what one takes the world to be in such a way that the sentences one believes true have internal structures isomorphic to relations between things in the world. Traditional, Platonic, epistemologically-centred philosophy is the search for such procedures. It is the search for a way in which one can avoid the need for conversation and deliberation and simply tick off the way things are. The idea is to acquire beliefs about interesting and important matters in a way as much like visual perception as possible-by confronting an object and responding to it as programmed. 'Relativism' is the view that every belief on a certain topic, or perhaps about any topic, is as good as every other.
