It's a pretty silly piece of reasoning, so my advice is to embrace it on behalf of your opponent in order to show them where it leads.
In my view, the modernist always win an argument based on truth. But I'd like to hear how this is argued out, by others. — BenignParadigm
The thing is, I'm looking for a deeper conception of the postmodern view of the problem. — BenignParadigm
“The collective avant guard has in our time and in postmodernity been replaced by the single figure of the curator who has become the demiurge of these floating and dissolving constellations of strange objects we still call art. Maybe we don’t have great artists anymore, we have great curators”
Postmodern "thought" is among the most pernicious anti-intellectual movements in modern times. — jkop
But my earlier point is, people are often saying this sort of thing, but not citing the apparent purveyors of it. — mcdoodle
Oh please. You have access to the Internet and Google. — Thorongil
The authors criticized in "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science" for starters. — Frederick KOH
He would agree with Richard Feynman that a scientist needs philosophy as much as a bird needs ornithology. — Frederick KOH
On the other hand every scientist enacts some kind philosophy, just as all other people do. — John
Equations must be interpreted, and experiments conducted, by homo philosophicus — John
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