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Postmodern Terms
 Local and Provisional Definitions
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agonisticsalterityanalytic philosophyakrasia
apodictic truthsaporiaappreciative inquiry
atomic propositions analysandbracketCartesiancatachresis
chimpanzoidCLScogitoCollaborative Language Systems
Communicative Actioncommodification constructivism
correspondence theory of truthconstructionismcountertransference
critical distancedecenterdeconstructionfactsfacticityfelt sense
finitismfoundationalismfly-bottlegenerous listeninghegemony
hermeneutic circleindexicalinhabitinscribed
institutionalization theoremintrospectionInvestigationsjoint-action
Katherine's storykoinonialanguage gameLebensweltlegitimate
little narrativelocal meaninglogocentrismmeta-narrative
modern myth of physical objects naive realism not-knowing
naturalistic fallacy ontology ostensive definition pagan
paralogypatterned jello performative utterance phenomenology picture theory of languageposit postmodern post-foundationalism premodern queer theory
reflexivity representation social constructionism social therapy solipsism -
subjectivitysuspended disbelief Taos InstituteThe text stands alone
transference transvaluationtypifying Tractatus
utterance Vienna CircleVerstehen writing
zone of proximal development (or "zpd") -
 
 
 

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