I honestly don’t understand Postmodernism well enough to know if this is it (and not sure if it’s even understandable enough for that), but I’ve encountered ideas that sound similar to what I’ve heard of post-modernism from undergraduate students in my college’s philosophy club.
Specifically there are several people with a tendency to say things along the lines of “but how do we really know what’s real or what’s not”, “can we really trust our senses”, etc. with regards to every single discussion that comes up, making it essentially impossible to come to any actual conclusions in any discussion.
Although one of them did actually accept the idea of discussing what the world would be like if our senses were reasonably accurate, but not without pointing out what a huge assumption that was.
(now, actually, I think it makes a lot of sense to talk about what facts and truth are occasionally, but being able to just say “X is true” when you have 99.9999% confidence of it is a fairly useful shorthand.)
(another thing which I’m not sure is the same or not was one of the people in the club who said something about someone believing “things that are true for him”, although I didn’t discuss that enough to get any real understanding on what they meant by that. Nor do I actually remember the question that led to that or the discussion following it, I think the topic diverged. In fact I think it diverged into me asking if their attitude was postmodernism and them not having any better an understanding of postmodernism than I did.)
Is that similar to post-modernist ideas? Because I honestly have no idea if it is or not, and would be interested in any insights from someone who knows what post-modernism is.
I honestly don’t understand Postmodernism well enough to know if this is it (and not sure if it’s even understandable enough for that), but I’ve encountered ideas that sound similar to what I’ve heard of post-modernism from undergraduate students in my college’s philosophy club.
Specifically there are several people with a tendency to say things along the lines of “but how do we really know what’s real or what’s not”, “can we really trust our senses”, etc. with regards to every single discussion that comes up, making it essentially impossible to come to any actual conclusions in any discussion. Although one of them did actually accept the idea of discussing what the world would be like if our senses were reasonably accurate, but not without pointing out what a huge assumption that was. (now, actually, I think it makes a lot of sense to talk about what facts and truth are occasionally, but being able to just say “X is true” when you have 99.9999% confidence of it is a fairly useful shorthand.)
(another thing which I’m not sure is the same or not was one of the people in the club who said something about someone believing “things that are true for him”, although I didn’t discuss that enough to get any real understanding on what they meant by that. Nor do I actually remember the question that led to that or the discussion following it, I think the topic diverged. In fact I think it diverged into me asking if their attitude was postmodernism and them not having any better an understanding of postmodernism than I did.)
Is that similar to post-modernist ideas? Because I honestly have no idea if it is or not, and would be interested in any insights from someone who knows what post-modernism is.