This document discusses postmodern violations of logic and truth. It provides examples of self-defeating statements that claim there are no absolutes or truth. It then defines truth as that which conforms to reality and is determined factual through empirical evidence and historical confirmation. The document contrasts this with postmodern views that truth is subjective based on opinions, that words have unstable meanings open to unlimited interpretations, and that certainty cannot be found.

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Post Modern
Violations of the
Laws of Logic
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2. Is he meeting his own standard?
“There are no absolutes!”
“Are you absolutely sure? Absolutely
there are no absolutes?”

3. A Self-Defeating Statement
“There is no truth.”
“Is that true?”

4. Is he meeting his own standard?
“All truth is relative!”
“Is that a relative truth?”

5. “That’s just your interpretation!”
“Is that just your interpretation.”

6. Is he meeting his own standard?
“You ought not judge!”
“Is that a judgment?”

7. Is she meeting her own standard?
“No one has the Truth!”
“Is that true? (You obviously do)”

8. 1) That which conforms to reality
2) That which is determined to be factual
3) Objective truth
1) In science repeatable in the lab – empiricism
2) In history confirmed
1) Test of a credible eye witness
2) Test of coherence of time (grammar, syntax, spelling) and place
(supported by geography, history, and archeology)
3) In human experience – although subjective feelings -
intuition converge to validate – words like insight,
revelation, enigma, mystery, epiphany, conundrums exist
Truth - Definition

9. 1) Truth no longer objective but subjective - that which
conforms to opinion – name it and claim it
2) Deconstruction of words and their definition – leads to
unlimited instability – nothing is factual any more – “who
cares what temperature water boils at!” – no point of
reference of right wrong, guilt, shame, blame, etc.
3) Meaning – all interpretations are valid – “just is” –
”whatever”
4) Certainty – cannot be found
5) Metaphysical questions of origins (beginning), morality
right or wrong (now), word meanings, and eschatology
(future consequences) – utterly elusive – “who cares!”
Postmodernism