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The problems discussed so far have been largely internal to traditional scientific empiricism. The criticisms of the relativist undermine standard scientific empiricist assumptions about the objectivity of scientific knowledge by questioning the central claim that observation provides an objective basis for the evaluation of scientific theories.
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Greenwood, J.D. (1989). Relativism. In: Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8801-2_2
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