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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:41:00 -0700
From: "Randall S. Willcox" <rswillco-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Re: More Pro-Sokal



Dan wrote:  

> what surprises me at the gut level, however, is 
> that there has been no questioning of the ethics of submitting an essay 
> desinged to dupe.  whatever the postmodern critique of science might be, 
> it is not out to dupe science or scientists.  the critiques that i've 
> read have always been either cordial or sincere (though not necessarily 
> both).  sokal's submission seems to be neither.
> 
> dan

Sounds good to me. Dupe 'em all, I say. What's philosophy without a little mystification?
Though I would prefer to call it style.  And for all the Deleuze worshippers that believe
that D or G employ neither jargon nor mysitification, up your tubers with a rhizome!

"Jargon is what the other uses."  -- Barthes



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