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To: Borges
A postmodern mind can hold conflicting beliefs.

Bertrand Russell (no Pomost Modernist) said this was the sign of a great mind.

The adult mind in which A can be both A and non-A at the same time is not sane. We cannot be sure which side of the line Russell was on at any given time.

124 posted on 11/03/2005 10:04:00 AM PST by Dataman (" conservatives are retards"- PatrickHenry)
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To: Dataman
The essence of PoMo or deconstruction is that all assumptions and indeed all of reality is based on constructs of binary oppositions. Yes/No, Good/Bad...and that if you undermine these oppositions everything else gets undermined with them. It's a rhetorical tool that can be used any which way.
125 posted on 11/03/2005 11:30:32 AM PST by Borges
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