not represent reality, but only opinions about reality. All knowledge and all means of knowing are culturally and personally conditioned. “Language, by its very nature, shapes what we think. Since language is a cultural creation, meaning is ultimately (again) a social construction.”10 A corresponding acceptance of the political agenda of all language follows. For example, postmodernistic “politicians, given their philosophical assumptions, may well play fast and loose with the truth (since there
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