After reading Alders How to think about truth I learned truth can be defined in many different ways. According to Adler the skeptic thinks that there is nothing true or false. Believing everything is equally true and false and that we are unable to know what is true or what is false, that we simply don't have knowledge or possess the truth. Freud comments on this: "If it were really a matter of indifference what we …show more content…
is it possible to create viable criminal justice policy from a relativistic view point? Are there any particular point(s) that Adler provides that would help guide policy development? These two topics require the same level of critical analysis as stated above in 1.a.. Use the topic headings of Relativism and Policy for the first question and Policy Guidance for the second question. (300 words or less)
In my opinion I do believe it’s possible to create a viable criminal justice policy from a relativistic view point. Adler gives examples of this in the article using an American philosopher named William James who was concerned with the theory of truth. William James wrote a book called The meaning of truth and spent most of his life ''worrying about the whole problem of truth. James is the leading pragmatist who developed the pragmatic theory of truth-referring to the pragmatist. James did not create a new definition of the nature of truth, but only a new interpretation of what it means to say that the truth of our ideas consists in their agreement with reality as their falsity means their