HLST 4200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Middle Ages
11 Dec 2018
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The movement known as postmodernism has influenced thought about social research (alvesson, 2002; Sim, 2011) as well as permeating the arts, literature and architecture. Although by no means a unified approach, several ideas figure prominently. Essentially, whatever modernism advocated is opposed by postmodernists. Modernism was linked to developments in europe leading to the scientific revolution of the sixteenth century and later centuries, and the so called enlightenment" fully flowering in the eighteenth century. It sought to provide freedom from the irrationality, ignorance and superstition of the middle ages. Modernism"s central belief was in rationality, and in progress through science. Postmodernism challenges the idea of progress through reason. Postmodernism says there is no basis for such claims to truth. Objective criteria that are presented as a basis for distinguishing truth from falsity are seen to be nothing more than forms of persuasion that are designed to show that what is claimed is true".
