Give me your best defences of postmodernism. Tell me why it isn't undermining our respect for truth, science, evidence, reason, consistency.
Butler did? Did she not say the subject is in always in state of flux and then essentially leave us in the mess?
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I'd say the mess was there before. She just pointed at it. It's not surprising if the land of unspoken premises tends to be incoherent.
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Showing contradictions (e.g. in the White woman as a subject of liberation) shouldn't undermine respect for values.
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Well, no, The way this is done is laden with values. But can the way it is done undermine respect for truth because of those values?
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I will concede that claims of universal truth can be undermined. But I think that's a good thing and makes science better.
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But can science work if it can never claim anything to be (provisionally) true? If it doesn't aim for objective truth?
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Sure, you just have to state under what assumptions your truth holds. Same as in logic.
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The assumptions of evidence, testing & reason?
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Gosh I need to learn how to reaction-gif with this one

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