The Big Isms
A skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to modernism that teaches ultimate reality is inaccessible.
What is Postmodernism?
Something that is true at all times and in all places, regardless of circumstances.
What is Absolute Truth?
A single, overarching interpretation or "grand story" of reality.
What is a Metanarrative?
A pattern of ideas, beliefs, and habits that help make sense of God and the world.
What is a Metanarrative?
The belief that truth and morals are relative to one’s specific community.
What is Cultural Relativism?
Characterized by a strong belief in rationalism, science, and technological progress following the Enlightenment
What is Modernism?
Truth based specifically on a person’s perspective, feelings, or opinions.
What is Subjective Truth?
A condition in which a single word, phrase, or concept has more than one meaning.
What is Polysemy?
The branch of philosophy that seeks to understand the nature of knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
A hybrid worldview incorporating elements of postmodern philosophy
What is Christian Postmodernism?
The view that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, or essential value.
What is Nihilism?
The view that the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes facts.
What is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
A logical fallacy where an opponent’s argument is rejected by attacking their motives.
What is Bulverism?
The doctrine that all knowledge is derived specifically from sense experience.
What is Empiricism?
The belief that no single religion can be universally true for everyone.
What is Prescriptive Pluralism?
The movement claiming knowledge is a product of linguistically constructed forms or grammars.
What is Structuralism?
The denial of the existence or accessibility of an objective reality.
What is Anti-realism?
A method of literary analysis that seeks to discern and expose ideologies in a text.
What is Deconstruction?
A humble attitude toward one's beliefs, realizing they might be incomplete or mistaken.
What is Epistemological Humility?
The belief that entities do not possess essences but are results of social construction.
What is Anti-essentialism?
Contends that communication is about the views and motivations of speakers rather than things.
What is Poststructuralism?
Something actual and independent of the mind but established by consensus.
What is Objective Reality?
A pre-Socratic school that taught rhetoric and held skeptical views of truth and morality.
What is Sophism?
The state of having a limit or end.
What is Finitude?
The belief that propositions are tools to be judged only by their practical consequences.
What is Pragmatism?