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A framework arguing for the legitimacy of postmodern approaches in specific contexts—particularly for analyzing how power, language, and culture shape what counts as knowledge, truth, and reality. The theory holds that postmodern critique is not an attack on truth but an investigation into how truth functions socially—a necessary corrective to naive realism that assumes facts speak for themselves. Legit postmodernism doesn't deny that things exist; it asks how we come to know them, whose interests shape that knowledge, and what alternative ways of knowing might reveal. It's postmodernism as epistemic humility rather than epistemic suicide—the recognition that our access to reality is always mediated, without giving up on reality itself.
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