Late Papers

Sorry it took me so long to grade your papers. But, you see, when you're the professor you can be late without any penalty at all, so ha-ha.

You all fail, except Amy, who has mastered the art of regurgitating what the postmodernist professor wants to hear, and is therefore correct.

According to the book, facts are "revisable data about the world." Is it just me, or when you think "fact," do you think solid, true, incontrovertible?

Now, they do have a somewhat reasonable explanation for their definition. For instance, they give the example that it is a fact that humans cannot regrow limbs. However, someday in the future, humans may be able to regrow limbs, in which case we would have to revise our data, and the facts would change.

But I think the way they use this term is terribly confusing, and leads students to the idea that truth is sort of a floating concept, and nothing is ever really absolute. I'm not sure if poorly-explained concepts such as this are partly what led to postmodernism, or merely a result of it. Maybe both.