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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2005.00370.x
Abstract
Many of the philosophical doctrines purveyed by postmodernists have been roundly refuted, yet people continue to be taken in by the dishonest devices used in proselytizing for postmodernism. I exhibit, name, and analyse five favourite rhetorical manoeuvres: Troll's Truisms, Motte and Bailey Doctrines, Equivocating Fulcra, the Postmodernist Fox Trot, and Rankly Relativising Fields. Anyone familiar with postmodernist writing will recognise their pervasive hold on the dialectic of postmodernism and come to judge that dialectic as it ought to be judged.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | English, Communication and Philosophy |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | postmodernism;rationality;alogosia;fallacy;rhetoric;methodology;Troll's Truisms; Motte and Bailey Doctrines; Equivocating Fulcra; the Postmodernist Fox Trot; Rankly Relativising Fields |
Publisher: | Metaphilosophy LLC and Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
ISSN: | 0026-1068 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
Last Modified: | 03 May 2023 06:35 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50091 |
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