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AnimalMuppet on June 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (2006)

But that's a dead end. In Francis Schaeffer's phrase, in postmodernism "language leads to language and nothing more" (emphasis added).

ThomPete on June 21, 2018 | [–]

Language does lead to language and from a philosophical perspective, that's a valid observation that doesn't invalidate postmodernism though in fact, it supports that perspective.

jacobush on June 21, 2018 | [–]

Any Turing machine can be described in any other?

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