I know this is quite a broad philosophical topic, and I just recently found out about it, so I am intrigued to see how it will be explained.
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So the word relative basically breaks down to seeing something in relation to what’s around it. It causes discussion in basically every field of thought.
So in order to describe and judge something you need something to compare it to, called a frame of reference. It’s basically like a complicated ruler which allows you to describe things in relation to things known.
The issues that arise from this however are that when it comes to thinking, the way that people perceive and judge things depends on their frame of reference. The things they’ve seen and experienced in the past effect the way that they measure things because if someone has for instance seen a lot of suffering, they may measure a new amount of suffering as small from their frame of reference where as it might seem huge to someone who has a different reference for amounts of suffering
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