Derrida vs. the rationalists

Re:Derrida vs. the rationalists by xapata on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:28PM (#13610614)

Postmodernism has its occasional brilliant insights. Most important is its constant skepticism, its refusal to believe someone who says, "trust me."

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Re:Derrida vs. the rationalists by mannykannot on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:53PM (#13610853)

Constant skepticism ultimately becomes self-referential.

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Re:Derrida vs. the rationalists by xapata on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:24PM (#13611599)

As it should be.

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Re:Derrida vs. the rationalists by mannykannot on Friday February 10, 2017 @08:31AM (#13615200)

Until it leads (as it inevitably tends to) to closed, and therefore irrelevant, universes of discourse, as appears to have happened in this corner of philosophy.

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Re:Derrida vs. the rationalists by xapata on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:21PM (#13618534)

Pruning branches is an important part of growing a decision tree. Don't cut down the tree if some branches went in the wrong direction.

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Re:Derrida vs. the rationalists by mannykannot on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:26PM (#13620584)

I suppose that is OK if you already know in what direction your preferred answer lies, but it does not seem to be in the spirit of self-referential skepticism.

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