The answer seems to be that the skepticism and relativism of the postmodern knowledge principle are now interpreted in a more restrictive fashion: that it is impossible for humans to obtain reliable knowledge by employing evidence and reason, but, it is now claimed, reliable knowledge can be obtained by listening to the “lived experience” of members of marginalized groups—or what is really more accurate, to marginalized people’s interpretations of their own lived experience, after these have been properly colored by Theory.
