Instead of recommending that the relativist talk only in explicitly relativized terms about what his epistemic system allows or forbids, the hybrid view would allow him to utter sentences that look unrelativized, but would insist that they now be treated as having only assessment-relative truth-values and no absolute truth-values.

We know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub?

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