| You don't adopt it on a macro level you keep it in mind just like when you apply the falsification principle when doing science. If you believe the world is flat you aren't exactly right but you are right enough to get from village A to B if they are close enough to each other. Newton wasn't exactly right but his understadning of gravity was good enough that it was useful to us. Einstein wasn't exactly right but he was right enough for classical physics (just not Quantum Mechanics). In other words, we believe in things all the time that are useful while not necessarily true. That's the point. you don't need universal truth to be locally right. The models have their limits, Us and our ability to establish them. They are an interpretation of reality not reality itself. I.e. our experience of reality and reality is not in a 1 to 1 relationship. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do science or we shouldn't make assumptions about whether something is good or bad or better or worse or right or wrong we should just know that we are really just playing word games in the grand scheme of things. Postmodernism doesn't say we can't make assumptions on macro level it's indirectly saying we ARE making assumptions and these assumptions are the frame of references but are limited by the language we use to express them. So we can't really know the true interpretation of something just the reduced version that our perception and vantage point allows us to establish. In other words we are ultimately the axiom of the available perspectives of reality. I have linked to a few things in another discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366596 would be happy to continue the conversation my contact info is in my details. |