The noble world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

A quote by Richard Sweater.

Understanding Relativism Part 1

Welcome to this multi-part series on relativism or relativity.

There's probably gonna be two parts,

maybe a third part we'll see

because there's so much material to cover here

and it's quite complex.

But also I should tell you right off the bat that if you're looking for an in-depth

look at the physics of Einstein's general relativity theory, that's not what we're going to be talking about here today.

We're talking about relativism as a sort of a, as a philosophical topic and even though of course Einstein's general relativity theory is one instance of relativism and it's an important one and we will be

touching upon it. It's not going to be a deep dive into the physics of Einstein. That's that's something maybe we'll do in the future at some point.

But what you have to understand about relativism and relativity is that it goes far beyond just physics.

There's many different kinds of relativity

and we'll be discussing many of those here today.

So actually this topic is more foundational

than any kind of individual physical theory.

We're going to be talking about many different theories within science and

philosophy and morality and ethics. So I'm really excited about and I've been preparing my thoughts because this is tricky to explain.

It's very easy to misunderstand relativism, really easy.

And this makes this series complicated and really very advanced.

So I just want to warn you to keep an open mind as usual with these very foundational topics. This is tricky stuff, easy to

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