“Existentialism is an approach to any kind of knowledge; although it began as a revolt in philosophy, it had extended its sphere it psychology.  In due course, it may well reach all the sciences.  Modern science is moving away from the purely analytical approach that has been its characteristic since Newton and Descartes.  Similar versions of relativism (several anthropologists have claimed that there is no universally valid rationality, but that different cultures have different rationalities) have become common in the intellectual movements known collectivity as ‘post-modern’.  Postmodernists see themselves as challenging the enlightenment vision.  The universe exists quite independently of our minds and that, within the limits set by our relativity theory is not a refutation of traditional physics but an extension of Gödel’s as a kind of support to the traditionalist’s rationalist conception that separates ontology from epistemology.  Truth is a matter of correspondence to facts.”

 

Dewey, John 1991 How We Think Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY