Since he then took for granted the existence of absolute moral standards and universal principles of ethics, he condemned censorship as a moral evil that entailed spying into people's minds and hearts and assigned to weak and malevolent mortals powers that presupposed an omniscient mind.
Quine granted the existence of sets, in part because they obey the extensionality axiom: sets are identical iff they have the same members.
For instance, if we answer 'There is something because the Universal Designer wanted there to be something', then our explanation takes for granted the existence of the Universal Designer.
As predicted by M. Weiser [2], this technology is gradually disappearing from our cognitive front, as we increasingly take for granted its existence.
Both James Cushing (1994) and Mara Beller (1999) take for granted the existence of a unitary Copenhagen interpretation in their social and institutional explanation of the once total dominance of the Copenhagen orthodoxy; a view they personally find unconvincing and outdated partly because they read Bohr's view on quantum mechanics through Heisenberg's exposition.
By the same token, many still take for granted the existence of a "digital divide" between "haves" and "have-nots" when it comes to Internet and digital technology access.
Both Hacking and Cartwright grant existence to entities such as electrons, but do not grant "real" status to either laws or theories, which may postulate or apply to such entities.
The advocate of in rebus universals is unlikely to grant the existence of "being both white and round and either shiny or not made of silver", even in the case in which there is an object that is both white and round and either shiny or not made of silver (such as a non-shiny white plastic ball).
You've just made the mistake, again, of granting your existence to someone else's eyes.
A would-be relativist about morality needs to decide whether his view grants the existence of some absolute moral facts, or whether it is to be a pure relativism, free of any commitment to absolutes.
Someone who poses the question in a comprehensive way will not grant the existence of the Universal Designer as a starting point.
