Grazer Philosophische Studien

Volume 23, 1985

Joseph Wayne Smith
Pages 119-128

Meiland and the Self-Refutation of Protagorean Relativism

In this paper I shall attempt to perform two tasks; first, to defend James Jordan's recent self-referential arguments for the inconsistency of Protagorean relativism from the criticisms of Jack Meiland, and second, to contribute towards the cause of undermining Protagorean and conceptual relativism by criticizing Meiland's own explication of the notion of relative truth.