Sir, – With respect to William Reville (July 17th), the so-called postmodern analysis on science has also come in for criticism, mainly for its relativist stance.
Postmodern statements that we cannot know the truth of an objective world are contradicted by the very nature of their assertions (ie, if this statement is true, it must be false).
What Dr Robert Grimes asks for is a well-reasoned debate on what facts we can know to help us make sense of the real world we inhabit and not have our thinking fudged by the dogmatic assertions of religion or by the obscure pseudoscientific writings of Lacan et al. – Yours, etc,
COLM MAHER,
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