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| − | [https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50091/1/shackel%20The%20Vacuity%20of%20Postmodernist%20Methodology%20final%20archivable.pdf "The Vacuity of Postmodernist | + | [https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50091/1/shackel%20The%20Vacuity%20of%20Postmodernist%20Methodology%20final%20archivable.pdf "The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology,"] by Nicholas Shackel shows that equivocation is at the heart of |
| − | Methodology,"] by Nicholas Shackel shows that equivocation is at the heart of postmodernism. This article invented the "motte-and-bailey argument" terminology for a strategy of having an easily defended but innocuous motte tower and a striking but indefensible bailey fence outside it that has to be retreated from when attacked. | + | postmodernism. This article invented the "motte-and-bailey argument" terminology for a strategy of having an easily defended but innocuous motte tower and a striking but indefensible bailey fence outside it that has to be retreated from when attacked. |
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"The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology," by Nicholas Shackel shows that equivocation is at the heart of postmodernism. This article invented the "motte-and-bailey argument" terminology for a strategy of having an easily defended but innocuous motte tower and a striking but indefensible bailey fence outside it that has to be retreated from when attacked.
