I don’t completely understand what you are saying, so this response may not apply, but it seems that you may not understand the purpose behind defining skeptical modernism. The goal isn’t to tackle post-modernism on its own terms, but rather to see how far the modernist framework can be stretched while still remaining modernism. The difference between post-modernism and skeptical modernism should therefore consist of all of the claims of post-modernism that the modernist framework cannot accomodate.
I don’t completely understand what you are saying, so this response may not apply, but it seems that you may not understand the purpose behind defining skeptical modernism. The goal isn’t to tackle post-modernism on its own terms, but rather to see how far the modernist framework can be stretched while still remaining modernism. The difference between post-modernism and skeptical modernism should therefore consist of all of the claims of post-modernism that the modernist framework cannot accomodate.