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Thanks for moving the posts. Do you have any idea what the writer means by "western masculine forms of understanding" in the second sentence?

By "the empirical project", the writer means empiricism, particularly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empiricism, as elaborated by John Locke and David Hume. Logical positivism is a philosophy saying truth is what is verifiable. What can't be verified shouldn't be considered true. In the...

Doesn't the first sentence seem syntactically faulty, perhaps? Why is 'expunded' in simple past tense?

OK, Conscious Bob. But first to give you some context for the text, let me tell you that the book is about the literary genre, realism. Here are two of those sentences: 1. Taken in one direction, the empirical project leads to logical positivism, a development of the mathematical philosophy of...

Hi. I am translating a chapter of a non-fiction book as an assignment, but a number of sentences from it don't make much sense to me. I searched the internet for any forum or website where I could ask for an explanation for such comprehension issues, but there seemed to be none. Maybe I didn't...