[exDemMom]

Nothing in this excerpt explains how validating a physics theory led to multiculturalism.

[ckilmer]

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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[untenured]

This author is not the first person to make an argument of this type, if not necessarily exactly the same. The great historian Paul Johnson, in his introduction to his book Modern Times IIRC also talked about the displacement of the objective Newtonian model, where if you knew the initial conditions you could in theory predict how the clockwork machine would play out, with relativity, after which the culture decides that things, including ethics, became, well, relative.