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IT IS ONLY IN THE TWENTY YEARS that the notion or concept of modernity has been attempted to be seen outside of its own logical parameters. Before, the “hard:” and the “soft” sciences happened only in terms of modernity, in and through it,, despite it and not in terms of trying to question its truth claims, general assumptions, and logical foundations. The idea that some or most of the assumptions, methods, and truth claims of modernity must be rendered suspect, questionable or even absurd originated mainly from the French and now, as they say, this idea already constitutes a movement which goes by the name of postmodernism – a name that bluntly and nominally secures f its main opponent. Postmodernism dares announce the end of an age whose origin dates some more than 400 years ago, the Modern Age, or Modernity.