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    It is not the case that Protagorean relativism can sustain 'all appearances are true' by relativizing truth to the individual persisting subject, not to momentary perception-events.

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    • 1.Subject-relativism still faces the problem that two subjects with opposing experiences and dispositions would both be true, undermining meaning of 'truth'.
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    • 2.Distinguishing persisting subjects from momentary perceptions is metaphysically unclear—subjects are constituted by perceptions, not independent of them.
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    • 3.If truth is relativized to subjects, no subject can be wrong about their own experience, making knowledge claims and error correction impossible.
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    • 1.Individual subjects persist through time with stable dispositions, making subject-relative truth more coherent than momentary perception-based truth.
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    • 2.Anchoring truth to persisting subjects avoids the absurdity that contradictory perceptions are simultaneously true for the same person at different times.
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    • 3.Subject-relativism preserves rational disagreement: two people with different stable perspectives can both be 'right' without logical contradiction.
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