(R)elativism… requires that inquiry be seen as an act of construction that is
practical and moral and not epistemological. Likewise, as must follow from this
requirement, any judgments about the goodness or badness of research must
themselves be practical and moral judgments and not epistemological ones. For
the nonfoundationalist, to move away from epistemology is to recognize inquiry
as a social process in which we, at one and the same time, construct our criteria
for judging inquiries as we go along.