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According to cultural relativism any statement of any kind is, basically, culture or language specific. We cannot transcend culture. We cannot and should not evaluate the culture of other people in the light of our own. We should not be judgmental in this regard. This will lead to Ethnocentrism according to which one’s own culture is better than the culture of others and according to which one’s own culture can be a criterion for judging and evaluating the cultures of other people. Karl Popper and Ian Jarvie are of the opinion that this will lead to the impossibility of knowledge. If we accept the radical views of cultural and cognitive relativism, the objectivity and universality of knowledge will be impossible. Jarvie points out that without any judgment or criticism what will be the use of Anthropology? Popper suggests that the cross cultural debate is not impossible though difficult. New ideas cannot be produced only by description but by criticism and evaluation

Muhammad Jawwad. (2019) DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION (A CRITICAL STUDY OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM WITH REFERENCE TO THE VIEWS OF KARL POPPER AND IAN JARVIE), Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1.
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