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[Vaska]

Paul Mackin writes:

>Douglas K 's mention of postmodern science reminds me of certain
>questions that I have whenever that term is used.
>
>How does the event of so called postmodern science mesh with the much more
inclusive concept of postmodernism?
>
>The purported shift in science brought about by quantum theory would have
taken place decades earlier than the 50s--the earliest point at which events
in media, architecture, consumption, etc., needed such a thing as
postmodernism to explain.
>
>How general is the acceptance of the term "postmodern science"? Looked
>for it in vain in a few indexes.
>
>Finally, how big a shift in science occurred. It was definitely BIG of
course. But did it  deal any kind of fatal  blow to cause and effect?  Some
may have seen  it that way while others didn't.
>
>Just some questions. Don't know the answers.

Interesting questions, these.  If we could only figure out how to define
postmodernism first, or come to some kind of a consensus about what we might
mean by the term.  I really do mean this.

Vaska