Postmodernism

  • The Kantian problem and the postmodern void

    Over the past week I was reading something that reminded me of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, particularly the Kantian problem of a priori and a posteriori knowledge. At its core, the Kantian problem can be framed around the claim that mathematics and logic are based on synthetic a priori judgments – statements that are

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  • One may have noticed something distinct about the title of this essay, namely that I have enclosed the word “truth” in quotations.  The purpose is to bring focus to the question of its status, not because the concept itself is in doubt, but because it appears, at least in many postmodern circles, to have undergone

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