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To: exDemMom

The Australian philosopher David Stove, in his book Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult, showed that all post-modernism, in particular the entire work of the philosophers Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, is based on the belief that Newtonian physics was replaced in the twentieth century. If one reads carefully the founding texts of postmodernism in the humanities and the social sciences, one sees that these texts acknowledge that postmodernism is based on the perceived fall of Newton. Often they quote Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to this effect.

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10 posted on 06/29/2019 9:06:15 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

What you have told me is that these philosophers have no understanding of the physical world, but tried to introduce a belief system based on that lack of comprehension.

The theory of relativity does not mean that everything is relative and fluid; it states that no matter what your frame of reference is, the speed of light is absolute. In other words, it posits that there is an aspect of reality that cannot vary—kind of opposite from the belief that everything is fluid and subject to interpretation.


23 posted on 06/29/2019 1:42:34 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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