ABSTRACT

“Relativism” is said in many ways and there are several ancient views which might be regarded as being relativistic, such as that for certain Fs nothing is F simpliciter, but only relatively to something else; that apparently conflicting judgements may be correct simultaneously; that truth-bearers may have different truth-values at different times (sometimes called “temporal relativism”); and that there are no objective perspectives. I discuss these strands of thought, and some others, in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.