Postmodernism“We cannot conceive of 'night' without knowing what day is. A person cannot know what a 'tree' is without knowing what a tree is not!” (Author unknown). Postmodernism is a theory that critically questions whether something can truly be defined and known. A postmodernist would argue that nothing beyond the imagination can be essentially knowable. This is because you cannot create anything in this world without relating it to other objects or perhaps ideas. For example; “We cannot, consequently, truly have knowledge of anything in isolation.” What we assume is knowledge in society is only what we have been told or have been persuaded to believe by other high powers and dominant economic, intellectual or even political positions. For example, what evidence do we have that the earth is round? We may not have seen it ourselves or understood it ourselves, but it is what we have been taught to believe. "This idea simplifies what the Earth actually is, and such statements trick us into thinking that we truly understand the shape of the Earth, when in reality there are many places...