Stephen Hicks
From the Church and State website
"Epistemology: the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion."Language is the center of postmodern epistemology. Moderns and postmoderns differ not only about content when arguing particular issues in philosophy, literature, and law; they also differ in the methods by which they employ language. Epistemology drives those differences.
And isn't that basically the distinction I make here? In the course of living our lives from day to day, there are any number of situations in which human beings interact and no one questions what true or not true. It's what we call the either/or world. What can we know about it such that neither modernists nor postmodernists get into squabbles over whether our language is actually closer to the objective truth than the language of others.
Here things get problematic only in regard to discussions that revolve around free will or solipsism or sim worlds or the red pill/blue pill sequence in The Matrix.
Postmodern epistemology? How can that not only really be in reference to the same epistemological limitations modernists confront in regard to "I" when conflicting opposing value judgments. We're all in the same boat here given my own assumptions above and elsewhere.
Indeed. And now all we need is a context.Epistemology asks two questions about language: What is language’s connection to reality, and what is its connection to action?
Only here of course we are confronted with that age old conundrum that revolves around human consciousness and autonomy and human consciousness as but one more inherent manifestation of the only possible world. Only here, as well, in my view, moderns and postmoderns are still in the same boat. Neither of them are able to establish definitively how exactly matter itself became conscious of itself as conscious matter once it became living matter.Epistemological questions about language are a subset of epistemological questions about consciousness in general: What is consciousness’s connection to reality, and what is its connection to action? Moderns and postmoderns have radically different answers to those questions.
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