forum for week of 21 Nov: the appeal of truth relativism

I think that different experiences can create different schemes of interpretation, and therefore different foundational beliefs. For instance, conceptions of gender vary widely between cultures and periods of time: notions of man and woman are obvious to us, but potentially not for another culture, so a person can say, "I am a man" and be a woman and be speaking the truth, because to them man means all human beings. Or perhaps I can say, "I am a man" and to another person that is not true, because they don't have the same conception of gender. Or you could have two boys in Roman times and they both say "I am a boy" and for one it is true and the other it isn't, because one is a slave and therefore not a person at all.