nihilism postmodernism. Postmodernism characterizes mainly as the view that there’s no objective truth, no objective moral values, and that logic and reason are socially constructed concepts. These seem to me to be characteristics that align quite well with nihilism.
Q. Who is the writer of the modern and the postmodern period?
Many works from this time period contain “epiphanies.” Some authors were James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf.
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- Q. Who is the writer of the modern and the postmodern period?
- Q. What is the postmodernism literary movement?
- Q. What major difference separates modernism from postmodernism?
- Q. Has postmodernism ended?
- Q. What is the alternative to falsification?
- Q. What is the difference between fabrication and falsification?
- Q. What is falsification of documents?
Q. What is the postmodernism literary movement?
Postmodernism is a late 20th-century movement in philosophy and literary theory that generally questions the basic assumptions of Western philosophy in the modern period (roughly, the 17th century through the 19th century).
Q. What major difference separates modernism from postmodernism?
The fundamental difference between modernism and postmodernism is that modernist thinking is about the search of an abstract truth of life while postmodernist thinkers believe that there is no universal truth, abstract or otherwise.
Q. Has postmodernism ended?
Postmodernism has ended as a period, and as an already finished project is has enriched the golden fund of literary canons (like classicism, neoclassicism, romanticism, realism or modernism), permitting new movements and poetics to follow.
Q. What is the alternative to falsification?
Popper proposed an alternative scientific method based on falsification. However many confirming instances there are for a theory, it only takes one counter observation to falsify it. Science progresses when a theory is shown to be wrong and a new theory is introduced which better explains the phenomena.
Q. What is the difference between fabrication and falsification?
(1) Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them. (2) Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.
Q. What is falsification of documents?
Forging a signature comes under this category as does the act of altering, concealing or destroying records. Trying to alter the facts. The act of altering records is an example of document falsification, which is a white-collar crime.
