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A framework for understanding knowledge as relative to conceptual frameworks, cultural contexts, or epistemic systems—what counts as knowledge in one framework may not in another. Relativist Epistemology doesn't claim that everything is equally true; it claims that truth-claims are evaluated within frameworks, and frameworks themselves are not neutrally comparable. This is often misunderstood as "anything goes," but sophisticated relativism recognizes that frameworks have internal standards, that some are better for some purposes, and that relativism about frameworks doesn't mean relativism about facts within them. It's epistemology that takes diversity of knowing seriously without abandoning judgment.
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