h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Added in a few links to the 'philosophers' cited.

Any other comments? Anyone who thinks I've been unfair and wants to defend this stuff?

Postmodernity, or postmodern writers?

I think this Entry effectively documents an attack on the writers. I don't think it amounts to a refutation of postmodernity, or that it gives much of an impression of having been intended to be; and if it were it would probably be considered an opinion piece anyway.

Good: I hadn't intended it to be read as an attack on the postmodernists, although my sympathies are obviously with their detractors.

Anyway, a thorough refutation of postmodernism would involve (a) having to read all the stuff (b) try and understand what the hell the writers were getting at and (c) write a critique of it all. There's three lifetimes' work there already, and I have better things to do, frankly.

I hope you can spare the time to polish this a little more

Footnote 2 in 1st paragraph: 2 typos:
"Altenatively defined as being 'today's interpretaion..."
> AlteRnatively defined as being 'today's interpretaTion..."

End of 3rd paragraph of entry:
goobledegook > gobbledegook

2nd para of Defending the Indefensible: Richard Dawkin's quote has no concluding apostrophe.
also typo: desparate > desperate

"the statement that 'the sun orbits the earth' would be as equally valid as that of the earth orbiting the sun..."
the 'equally' is redundant, but IMHO if it is to be used to add force to the comparison would be better placed before 'as valid as' rather than in it. (just a suggestion )

Finally I found the sentences of final paragraph a little too convoluted, and it was tricky to keep in mind what was being referred to in clauses that referred to points made earlier in the paragraph. Could you perhaps simplify the paragraph to elucidate the points being made?

Pimmsaloonie

Changes made - any better now?

I like it (I'm not saying it will win a Crystal mark prize for ease of reading, but I am not in the mood to attack your prose excessively )

Pimms

Well, I'm too tired to simplify it any further. Aynone who thinks that it would benefit from some rewriting is welcome to have a go.

FM

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Pimms

Cheers: that didn't hang about long.

Now for some and cocoa.

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