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It is surely only in a postmodern climate that anyone could seriously feel the need to distinguish relativity from relativism. But, yes, Latour does indeed state the obvious explicitly. The trouble is that the good work is then all undone by his stated intention to show that “relativity itself could be said to be social”, and his reading of Einstein's text as “a contribution to the sociology of delegation” (Sokal and Bricmont, page 115).
I'm sorry if I misunderstood Latour, Ross and Harding. But, for heaven's sake, isn't being misunderstood precisely what these people do for a living?
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Dawkins, R. Relativity and relativism: who's confused?. Nature 396, 510 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/24973-c1
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