Physical relativity is ontological, not merely epistemological

Evidence

But this relativity is not a “relativism;” it has nothing to do with knowledge; better yet, it implies the dogmatic postulate according to which knowledge releases to us what is. The relativity of modern science aims at being. Man and the world are relative beings, and the principle of their being is the relation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 835

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key distinction: science’s relativity is aimed at being itself, not at softening knowledge claims — ‘relativism’ would be a misreading.
• XREF: connects to: Popular resistance to relativity stems from treating motion as external to being; Bantu causality is ontological while Hume and Kant make it epistemological — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1019; The scientific turn to Relativity enabled the relativism of cultures to prevail — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 661 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Bantu causality is ontological while Hume and Kant make it epistemological #expands (0.82) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1019