No, criticisms of PoMo aren't either academic or reactionary. Reasonable people w/out an academic background in it can see &discuss problemshttps://twitter.com/ChrisDoveton/status/878239600409362432 …
It's easily refutable if we use any meaningful definition of knowledge. Also, there is more than one episteme in any culture.
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Given that absolute knowledge is either inaccessible or accessible only to God, one of the limitations on the absolute can surely be...
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Approached by referring to imperfections in language, which are always historically situated?
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Trivially true. Objective reality still exists.
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Yes but our inability to accurately describe it through language is not trivial.
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As long as we can still make medicine cure, computers compute, planes fly etc.
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That's mathematics/science, the knowledge we are concerned with is social/linguistic. Many problems in this area.
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Talking about knowledge. Social stuff is mostly not knowledge.
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Humanities aspires to knowledge. Your essay is part of the humanities isn't it?
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I agree the episteme quote is dodgy but the definition of culture is also dodgy in general. Little agreement over what it is
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