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The Postmodernist Embrace of Counterfeit Thinking

Postmodernism: A Primer for Reasoning Minds | Part 6: The Postmodernist Embrace of Counterfeit Thinking

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Postmodernism posits as a basic premise the rejection of reason as a Western superstition. It does not demonstrate that reason is akin to superstition, for the practical reason that an argument requires evidence or proof, and evidence and proof require an objective reality to establish evidential facts acquired from the foundational sensory evidence that forms the building blocks for the creation of higher-level concepts.

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 11: The Important Implications of Praxeology

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It was not so long ago that scientific dualism – the idea that the social sciences and the natural sciences require distinct methodologies – was uncontroversial. It was accepted that science was the systematic search for knowledge wherever appropriate to advance human understanding of the world and man’s place in it.

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 10: The Unique Qualities of the Human Mind

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