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All the relativist asks is that we don’t overstate our case: that we downgrade unjustifiable statements of transcendent truth to pragmatic statements of provisional fitness. Functionally, stopping with “it works as far as we know” is not a grea~t concession. JC is not aware of any university that has yet closed its physics department on account of completion of its mission. | All the relativist asks is that we don’t overstate our case: that we downgrade unjustifiable statements of transcendent truth to pragmatic statements of provisional fitness. Functionally, stopping with “it works as far as we know” is not a grea~t concession. JC is not aware of any university that has yet closed its physics department on account of completion of its mission. | ||
====Sociological quibbles==== | ====Sociological quibbles==== | ||
{{Drop|I|n any case}}, generalised observations about the typical behaviour of physical objects at the human scale of interaction are not the sorts of things postmodernists tend to disagree about. Even if you could establish | {{Drop|I|n any case}}, generalised observations about the typical behaviour of physical objects at the human scale of interaction are not the sorts of things postmodernists tend to disagree about. As Professor Dawkins observes, relativists ''do'' get on planes. Even if you could establish aerodynamics were true — as per the above, you can’t — it would not establish anything about the sorts of things post modernists ''do'' disagree about. | ||
These tend to have a ''human'' cast to them: they hail from social and not physical sciences. They are about history, sociology, psychology, politics, ethics, morality. And it is not just post modernists who disagree about these things. ''Everyone'' does. | These tend to have a ''human'' cast to them: they hail from social and not physical sciences. They are about history, sociology, psychology, politics, ethics, morality. And it is not just post modernists who disagree about these things. ''Everyone'' does. | ||
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So when social commentators exasperatedly blame post modernism, or relativism for some failure to see the world in the plane terms it should be seen, we should hear alarms at once. | So when social commentators exasperatedly blame post modernism, or relativism for some failure to see the world in the plane terms it should be seen, we should hear alarms at once. | ||
====Analytic and synthetic and propositions==== | ====Analytic and synthetic and propositions==== | ||