factual relativism

Noun

factual relativism (uncountable)

1. The view that scientific facts about the world are not absolute, but are relative to historical eras and to evolving scientific theories.
2. The claim that the world itself, or the facts about the world, are different for different individuals, or groups, or cultures.
   • factual relativism ... attempts to argue that the world itself, or the “facts,” are different for different individuals (groups, cultures). Hence truth, too, is relative.2013, Henrik Rydenfelt, Constructivist Problems, Realist Solutions, in J. Kegley and K. Skowronski, eds. Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 164
   • Factual relativism, according to which the facts ... may differ across perspectives — that is, different facts obtain relative to different perspectives.2005, Iris Einheuser, “Varieties of Relativism: Indexical, Propositional and Factual”, in Varieties of Relativism: Indexical, Propositional and Factual