[By] idealism, what usually seems to be meant is not adherence to some identifiable philosophical doctrine, 'esse est percipi' or whatever, but merely that if one pays much attention to surface manifestations ... the deeper realities ... will be obscured by forceless appearances. It is all these sins, plus global accusations of moral laxity and logical confusion (Hitler is usually brought in at this point), that relativism evokes."
-- Clifford Geertz, 1983.
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