 But, according to John MacFarlane and Crispin Wright, once this point is appreciated—viz., that Boghossian’s characterization of epistemic relativism is one that countenances absolute truths—it is contestable whether the position is genuinely relativistic in a philosophically interesting sense. As Wright (2008) says, the construal of epistemic relativism as signing on to the absolute truth of (explicitly relational) claims about knowledge and justification