“…Postmodernism and poststructuralism have presented a major challenge to the monist/dualist paradigm, yet by going to the particularity extreme, they have reinforced, rather than overthrown the U/P model. Just as no room was left to particularity with scientific theories, no room was left to generality and universality with postmodern theories (Goody, 2006;Lao, 2014). As Carr (1964) put it, the shape of a mountain may vary when seen from different angles, but if pluralism, differentiation, and dissemination of meaning are pushed to the extreme, either a mountain will have endless shapes, or have no shape at all.…”