Re: Hello
Sokal and Bricmont's systematic demolition is still totally convincing, at least to someone like me with a background in physics and mathematics. And even critics of Intellectual Impostures seem unprepared to defend the specific passages attacked, rather weakening general counter-accusations of a failure to understand the context or the use of metaphor and analogy.
So we are forced to accept that respected philosophers have been writing at length on subjects which they simply do not understand, with results ranging from ordinary confusion to outright gibberish.
That must certainly be at least a little disturbing, but what are its broader implications?
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03-19-2007, 11:53 PM
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