imagine clinging so desperately to trad bullshit that the basic insights vaguely grouped under "postmodernism" are a threat to you imagine being so desperate for identity that you pretend those insights amount to anything prescriptive enough to call yourself a "postmodernist"
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like, okay, sure: pomo philosopher: "there is no external source of meaning that could make one system of understanding inherently superior to another" pomo grifter: "all systems of understanding are equal in value!" pomo grifter: "science conspiracy made phlogiston not work!"
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contestants number two and three are obviously not great, but they don't make contestant number one wrong, any more than any epistemic claim has its value defined by the most ridiculous shit done using it as an excuse
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and yes, i did call Paul Feyerabend a pomo grifter just now, and i'm comfortable with that
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Citing Feyerabend is a such an absolutely necessary but deeply unfortunate evil, especially when dealing scientistic idealists that think Kuhn, Popper, Lakatos or whatever flavour of the decade has "figured out" how science "really works".
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when you cite Feyerabend you're just giving him what he wants
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i shouldn't be startled at the failure to reflexively apply Kuhn and Popper to Kuhn and Popper i suppose though huh
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science is driven by generational shifts in consensus paradigma, good thing history and philosophy of science is above all that
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