PostModernism

The belief that propositions do not mirror reality and should therefore be treated as tools and judged only by their practical consequences

• Realism

• Power

• Pragmatism

• Propaganda

The view that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.

• Nihilism

• Sophism

• Gorgiasism

• Objectivism

A hybrid worldview that incorporates elements of postmodern philosophy and Christian theology.

• Christian Conditioning

• Christian postmodernism

• Christian Left

• Christian Consciousness

The view that the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes the facts of reality.

• Correspondence theory of reality

• Cosmological Argument

• Collective Consciousness

• Correspondence theory of truth

The denial of the existence or accessibility of an objective reality

• Anti-Existence

• Anti-Realism

• Realism Denier

• Anti-Objectivity

An intellectual movement that believes human knowledge is not based on an accurate understanding of reality but is the product of linguistically constructed forms or grammars that societies have developed over time.

• Pragmatism

• Sophism

• Structuralism

• Postmodernism

A single, overarching interpretation, or grand story, of reality.

• Metanarrative

• Metaphysics

• Meta

• Metaverse

A method of literary analysis that questions the ability of language to represent reality adequately and seeks to discern and expose the purported underlying ideologies of a text

• Pig Latin

• Deconstruction

• Decentered Text

• Cosmology

A skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, that is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power plays.

• Secularism

• New Spirituality

• Philosophy

• Postmodernism

An intellectual movement that agrees with structuralism- it is more important to study language and relationships because it is impossible to have knowledge of objective reality- but progresses further by contending that human communication is not really about things but about the views and motivations of those involved in the conversation

• Post Meta

• Poststructuralism

• Post Haste

• Post Man