RE: Belief without Verification or Certainty
May 7, 2022 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2022 at 3:51 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(May 7, 2022 at 10:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's sort of the pit of it. If postmodernism has anything valid to say - then skepticism can't really be overdone. Even to the point of questioning the possibility or applicability of reason itself. We're mildly aware of where some skepticism can be maladaptive - but contend that the net effect is improvement. Further, that it's potential maladaptivity is in no way a certification of it's invalidity.
Well, I see where Angrboda is coming from with her answer, but I find it a little dissatisfying. It's not the attitude we carry around when speak of politics, sociality, or other ordinary things.
I can't be mad at radical skepticism. But I want to say that it's its own conversation. This conversation is premised on "We can know things." As false as that may turn out to be, it's an axiom for nearly all of our discussions.
Post modernist critiques are interesting and insightful, but --by postmodernism's own definition-- they can't be a basis for knowledge. Good criticism, sure. But their epistemic value can't really extend beyond that.
