TAILIEUCHUNG - Death and Furniture: The rhetoric, politics and theology of bottom line arguments against relativism

Yet most people responsible for furnishing a new home have no training in interior design. They may not be aware of interior de- sign guidelines and they are unlikely to have the tacit knowledge and experience required to optimally balance the tradeoffs. In- stead such amateur designers rely on intuitive rules such as pushing large furniture items against the walls. These intuitive rules often lead to functionally ineffective and visually imbalanced arrange- ments [Lyons 2008]. The resulting furniture layouts “simply don’t look or feel right,” and even worse the amateur designer “can’t pin- point what the problems are” [Ward 1999] | Death and Furniture The rhetoric politics and theology of bottom line arguments against relativism DEREK EDWARDS MALCOLM ASHMORE and JONATHAN POTTER Discourse and Rhetoric Group Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU UK We would like to thank Michael Billig David Middleton Alan Radley Margaret Wetherell and participants in the 15th Discourse and Reflexivity Workshop University of Sheffield September 1992 for making helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Published as Edwards D. Ashmore M. and Potter J. 1995 . Death and furniture The rhetoric politics and theology of bottom line arguments against relativism History of the Human Sciences 8 25-49. In this version pages are counted according to the published numbers with breaks following the published version. Bang Indeterminate yet sharply delineated noise perhaps of gunshot or fist thumping table or boot contacting stone or the sound of one hand clapping or. I refute it thus. Dr. Samuel Johnson kicking a stone rejecting Bishop George Berkeley s idealist philosophy. From Boswell s Life of Johnson. Mr Berkeley s breath smells of mothballs. I can only assume he thinks he is a chest of drawers. Iain Banks The Bridge He pities the plumage but forgets the dying bird. Tom Paine The Rights of Man on Edmund Burke s lack of sympathy for the masses Shopkeeper No no sir it s not dead. It s resting. Customer Resting Shopkeeper Yeah remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue beautiful plumage innit Customer The plumage don t enter into it -- it s stone dead. Graham Chapman et al. Monty Python s Flying Circus Death and Furniture are emblems for two very common predictable even objections to relativism. When relativists1 talk about the social construction of reality truth cognition scientific knowledge technical capacity social structure and so on their realist2 opponents sooner or later start hitting the furniture invoking the Holocaust talking about rocks guns killings human

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