Debbie asked:

What are some proven flaws in the theory of Relativism?

What are some proven flaws in the theory of Empiricism?

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Well, I don't know about the word 'proven' here. If I substitute the words 'commonly alleged', then I'll
give one of each:

To say "Everything is relative" is to say that no statement can be taken as absolutely true. Does this
apply to the statement itself? If so, then it cannot be taken as absolutely true. Therefore it is not
necessarily true that everything is relative. In other words, relativism is self-defeating.

Empiricists say that all knowledge enters through the senses. However, sense data is unorganised,
and does not seem to have the ability to organise itself. We do that. So we cannot be (as Locke
famously asserted) a "tabula rasa" or a blank slate. This was Kant's (equally famous) assertion,
'Intuitions without concepts are blind' — that our minds must have the ability to organise sense data
as it arrives, and that we have this prior to experiencing anything.

Tim Sprod