Comment Outside the text (Score 1) 600
There is not reality outside the text. There is only interpretation.
You claim yourself to be correct. I claim that you are a fool. Either claim can be challenged.
Neither of us can be right, as there is not reality outside the text.
Only we have now decided that we are both either fools, or both of us are correct. But are we right. To be right is not to be correct. Or is it.
This machine works. No it doesn't. Yes it does. Fine, it doesdoesn't. Now we are both correct again. But neither of us are right.
the mind set of postmodernism is "epistemologically challenged": a constitutional inability to adopt a reasonable way to tell the good stuff from the bad stuff. The language and idea space of the field have become so convoluted that they have confused even themselves.
Whose job is it then to sort the wheat from the chaff? Are academics to rely on technical people to tell them what is good and what is bad? Are technical people to rely on academics to tell them what works well and what does not?
It does not take much for a computer professional or physicist to show how a good idea (postmodern deconstruction) can be used badly.
Nor does it take much for a postmodern literary critic to show that a good idea (Word Processing technology) can be impelemented patehticarly [sic]. Tschuss
You claim yourself to be correct. I claim that you are a fool. Either claim can be challenged.
Neither of us can be right, as there is not reality outside the text.
Only we have now decided that we are both either fools, or both of us are correct. But are we right. To be right is not to be correct. Or is it.
This machine works. No it doesn't. Yes it does. Fine, it doesdoesn't. Now we are both correct again. But neither of us are right.
the mind set of postmodernism is "epistemologically challenged": a constitutional inability to adopt a reasonable way to tell the good stuff from the bad stuff. The language and idea space of the field have become so convoluted that they have confused even themselves.
Whose job is it then to sort the wheat from the chaff? Are academics to rely on technical people to tell them what is good and what is bad? Are technical people to rely on academics to tell them what works well and what does not?
It does not take much for a computer professional or physicist to show how a good idea (postmodern deconstruction) can be used badly.
Nor does it take much for a postmodern literary critic to show that a good idea (Word Processing technology) can be impelemented patehticarly [sic]. Tschuss
