3) Fitting with the last point, in several places you say "In fact, wrong" or "utterly false", but you don't explain WHY these views are wrong, or why they are false.
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I will try one more attempt at clarification, and then I will leave you alone. At one point, in the article we are discussing, you guys mention that postmodernists "claimed to be continuing the modernity project", but the only point you raise to object to this is the following:
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"many of those structures and institutions are, in fact, products of Modernity that the majority seeks to incrementally correct and ultimately protect." I read this as, postmodernists want to radically change institutions, and that is bad because those institutions are modernist
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1) That's not the only point we make against postmodern views of progress. 2) That is a point, yes. Postmodernists want to radically change institutions that most people want to keep and improve. I explain this more in the first of the two essays on PoMo I sent you.
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eg Human rights. We'd like to keep those but also improve on them. Democracy. We'd like to keep that but (in the UK anyway) make it more representative. Science. We'd like to keep that and keep improving its methods. etc.
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