It's a mistake to think of this as an epistemology. If you do that they have you.
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Replying to @colwight
Well, I don't think it's a valid one. But how else do I address the epistemological problems?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Call it a world view. But as humans we only have a certain number of ways to know the world. Empiricism, rationalism, pragmatism, conventionalism, standpoint. Mostly, you'll find all approaches use an ad mixture of many of these. 1/
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And you'll find even the most ardent postmodernist will use empiricism. You have to be able to point this out.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
So why call it an epistemology, when they'll use empiricism, which is an epistemology. You flatten out all the important differences.
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Replying to @colwight
I'm calling a specific epistemology which works on standpoint theory an epistemology. What do you think I'm calling an epistemology?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @colwight
I am saying that we *shouldn't* keep saying 'postmodernism' when we mean a certain set of ideas based on an epistemology of situated knowledge. Because postmodernism is much broader than this. I have just argued this in my response to the defence of postmodernism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Go back to the first tweet I responded to. Postmodernism isn't an epistemology. You ask a postmodernist, "How do you know that" and they say because I'm a postmodernist, then that's a statement of identity not an epistemology, and that should be pointed out.
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That is also what my tweet is saying. That postmodernism is not an epistemology and therefore should not be used to describe one. Therefore there is no need to explain to me that postmodernism isn't an epistemology.
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