Postmodernism
Revision as of 15:23, 2 September 2024 by Eric Rasmusen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50091/1/shackel%20The%20Vacuity%20of%20Postmodernist%20Methodology%20final%20archivable.pdf "The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology,"]...")
[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 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.
