Explores pragmatism's association with relativism in order to highlight how aspects of the classis pragmatists' positions support qualified relativism. Addresses qualified relativism and the characteristics of qualified relativists. States that qualified relativists can claim roots to their position in Peirce, James, and Dewey, some of the scholars others turn to for their pragmatic realism and non-vulgar absolutism. (Contains 43 references.) (MZ)