[extropy-chat] Fw: Deconstruction deconstructed....

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at earthlink.net>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Fw: Deconstruction deconstructed....


> From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail at HarveyNewstrom.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:41 PM
>
> > This person that you think has interests in other fields attended a
> > conference that was "an aggressively interdisciplinary gathering,
drawing
> > from fields as diverse as computer science, literary criticism,
> engineering,
> > history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and political science"
and
> > finds it incomprehensible, saying "The things they said were largely
> > incomprehensible."  This lead me to conclude that the author was not
> > interested or familiar with most of the fields he listed.
>
> Not necessarily so. Imagine yourself stumbling upon just such a colloquium
> under the auspices of Scientology clears, Thomist or Kabbalist
theologians,
> Moonies, Jain logicians, or devotees of Born Again glossolalia. There
would
> be insights available, because these people, by hypothesis, are not
> *stupid*, but the bogosity meter would run red-hot (except maybe for the
> Jainists).

What it appears to be is:
Post Modernism  = Self referential games with the article of faith (axiom)
being no objective reality.
It is supposed to be applicable to whatever reality one chooses, including
all models that deny the above axiom.

Dirk

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