Postmodernism Flashcards

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In philosophy

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20th Century
- questioned whether signs of language are able to represent reality
- ALAN SOKAL: article with a bunch of random words next to each other -> science required control
- KUHN drove attention towards the PRACTICE of science from an idealized concept

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Problems

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No example of an actual scientific revolution like Kuhn thought
- irrational science concept

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