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    Challenges→The flux theorist can preserve the claim that all appearances are true by treating apparently false appearances as different appearances to different people rather than false appearances to the same person.

    If some appearances are better than others for the same organism, a normative standard of correctness is implicitly invoked that is incompatible with strict relativism about truth.

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    Appearances(Kantian transcendental idealism)
    Objects as they are given through sensible intuition and structured by the categories, as opposed to things in themselves (objects as they are independently of human cognition).
    Incompatible with(logic and philosophy generally)
    Cannot exist or be true at the same time as something else; contradicts or conflicts with.
    Normative standard(as used in ethics)
    A rule or principle that tells us what *should* be the case, what's right or wrong—not just what *is* the case.
    correctness(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    The quality of being right or true; in this context, it means whether an interpretation or answer is actually valid.
    implicitly invoked(logic and reasoning)

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    strict relativism about truth(epistemology and metaphysics)
    The idea that there is no single objective truth—instead, what's true is only true relative to a particular person's perspective, culture, or situation, with no exceptions.

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