Is everything relative?

Answer 1

Yes. Everything. There's no figure without ground. There's no light without dark; no motion except as measured relative to another object. How could it be otherwise?

Answer 2

Automatically. If you think you will understand that easily. We are on the earth and rotating with it. we are also hurtling round the sun, the whole solar system is in motion. coming back we travel on many vehicles at the same time like going by train or a plane .inside that also we move from one place to another. all these motions are relative to each other. In short we are never at a fixed place for any length of time.

Answer 3

Yes, we cannot perceive anything without having something in relation to it. We see by our brains interpreting the relative differences in what our eyes take in. Feel by the relative differences in the sensations our nerves experience. Even in judging actions we use relative examples. If something is good it relates to what we have been taught is good, if we think an action is bad we find that it relates to something that we were told is wrong.

Answer 4

No. For example a carbon atom is a carbon atom, you can't have one carbon atom which is more carbony than another.

In terms of morality (which is what I suspect you are referring to) the question is a bit harder. How do you show that morality isn't relative to culture. I would say the problem with relativism is that it says there is no morality, just cultural rules, yet humans are instinctively moral creatures. You can also point to some universal moral rules such as "it is bad to make someone suffer".

Answer 5

We are everything and everything is one so all is relative in some kind of way

Answer 6

Time is supposed to be, according to Einstein: read on:

Tempus Fugit.

‘Time, it is relevant’, or so Einstein said,
It came from a notion, somewhere in his head,
But Pad won’t believe it; maybe he’s wise,
He said ‘ Tempus Fugit’, or to you,‘ Time flies’.

Poor Einstein - his theory of relativity,
Was a sign, old Pad said, of naivety,
That theory is one thing that’s not in God’s plan
He’s said to have said, ‘Time waits for no man’.

If Einstein were right, what would a man do?
But fly back a few years, then forwards a few,
His antics they would be just like a woman,
‘Till no one knew if, he was goin’ or comin’.

‘You would be able to see, if Einstein were right,
Next week’s news headlines, sometime tonight,
And last years potatoes, the ones that you ate,
Would not yet be planted, or gathered as yet’.

‘You could meet your own son when he’s ninety-one,
Then see your own father, when his life begun,
Then kiss your own mother when she was a girl,
Life, if he’s right, would be all in a whirl’.

‘So take my advice’, Old Pad, thinks he’s right,
‘That Einstein was clever, and yes, very bright’,
‘His theories’ says he, ‘they surely won’t last’,
‘What’s done, it is done, and what’s gone, is the past’.


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Answer 7

In the physics sense, yes. In the philosophy sense... Relativism denies differences in value. For trivial matters, such as which ice cream flavor is best, relativism works perfectly. I say chocolate, you say vanilla - but it doesn't really matter. For matters not so trivial, such as whether it is ok to kill people, relativism doesn't work.

I always tended to favor perspectivism over relativism, which says basically that every view is interested; that is, whoever holds that point of view has emotional interest in that point of view. It still allows for value differences, though, where relativism doesn't. So, in perspectivism... it may be possible that a murderer sees what they are doing as right, but it doesn't make it right. In relativism, the fact that they saw what they were doing as right would actually make them right.

Answer 8

Yes, and I have a physics joke from Physlink.com....

A student recognizes Einstein in a train and asks: "Excuse me, professor, but does New York stop by this train?"

Answer 9

relatively speaking? yes!

Answer 10

yes, in the macroscopic universe anyway. once you get down to subatomic physics things are decidedly different. think about it, good is only relevant as a contrary to evil, light as a contrary to dark, speed to time etc.