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If You Wish Violence on People You Disagree With, You're Already Infected

Postmodernism: A Primer for Reasoning Minds | Part 8 – If You Wish Violence on People You Disagree With, You’re Already Infected

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o ascribe to reason as a standard for pursuing desirable ends is taken by postmodernists as de facto evidence of one’s moral or ideological corruption.
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.
Postmodernism Welcomes You to the Wrecking Ball of Reason

Postmodernism: A Primer for Reasoning Minds | Part 5: Postmodernism Welcomes You to the Wrecking Ball of Reason

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The defining feature of postmodernism and its variants is a psycho-epistemological requirement to short-circuit the mind by both accepting and rejecting logic simultaneously. It is an ideology that sets the human mind against its own nature. To abandon logic is to abandon the mind's purpose as the causal link between desires and successful action.
Postmodernism: A Creepy Creeping Ideology of Destruction

Postmodernism: A Primer for Reasoning Minds | Part 2: Postmodernism: A Creepy Creeping Ideology of Destruction

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Postmodernism is a body of ideas loosely packaged together and set forth to purposefully attack and fracture rational and scientific metaphysics and epistemology, leaving mankind damned to a lifetime struggle against absurdity, chaos, submission, and sublimation of the individual into the collective.
How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs (Part 4)Barry L. Linetsky, 2019

How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 4: Why Can’t You Show Me Your Unicorn?

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The impossible task we each have in assessing the effectiveness of our thinking and action is that we cannot observe the results of actions not taken.

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 19: The Scientific Roots of Production and Destruction

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© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. It is widely…

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 18: Machine Messiahs

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© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. As we have…

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 16: Goodbye Mind, Hello Mindless

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Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 14: The Marginalization and Destruction of Epistemology

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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 9: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

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© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. In 1962,…

Foundational Thinking for Good Business

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High-level conceptual thinking is a critically important skill…