Here's the way I try to relate postmodernism to people familiar with CS. The relation "means" or "signifies" is a predicate taking 3 arguments: a source-text t

Here's the way I try to relate postmodernism to people familiar with CS. The relation "means" or "signifies" is a predicate taking 3 arguments: a source-text term, a conceptual definition, and an interpreter. That is: means(A, B, C) is true iff source-text A signifies concept B to interpreter C. The postmodern project seeks to emphasize the role of the interpreter (or their frame of reference) in the interpretation of everything. That's the third term in the predicate, which we often like to think is universal, in the way that "universal suffrage" turned out to be not universal at all.