Is modernism really modern? Uncovering a fallacy in postmodernism

Argumentation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-358

  Harpine, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument from authority; Argumentation; Ethno logic; Ethnocentrism; Postmodernism; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149118668     PISSN: 0920427X     EISSN: 15728374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ARGU.0000046715.74696.82     Document Type: Article

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