From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 14:48:09 GMT
Hi Johnny:
> Platt said
> >Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Foucault imply if not say outright
> >that "relativity of thought" is a universal while at the same time
> >>denying the existence of universals?
>
> Not at the same time, no. First he says it's a universal, then he denies
> universals, then he says it's a universal, then he denies universals. You
> just have to keep up with him and he stays true.
Wait a minute. Doesn't Foucault deny that anything is true?
> It is just a sort of
> Euclidian geometry that prevents something from being both true and false
> "at the same time", because the "at the same time" turns out to be
> meaningless, merely a logical hang-up for stubborn minds who don't want to
> ride the DQ of ever-oscillating truths.
So, Foucault and postmodernists find logic to be a "hang up" and thus
irrelevant?
> Most things are both true and
> false, because the observer changes, the context changes, the whole
> universe changes, at every moment, and it is impossible to stay in a moment
> long enough to nail anything down. You don't have time to hang a sign...
So what postmodernists say is both true and false? Then why should I
believe them when I can never know at any time whether what they are
saying is true or false? How can you say above that Foucault "stays
true" when everything changes?
The more I learn about postmodernism, the more irrational it becomes.
Platt
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