From: squigle-AT-panix.com
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 13:03:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Sokal Parody


leli-AT-wizvax.wizvax.net (Kevin LaPalme) writes:

>>"He says we're epistemic relativists," complained
>>Stanley Aronowitz, the co-founder and a professor at
>>CUNY. "We're not. He got it wrong. One of the reasons he
>>got it wrong is he's ill-read and half-educated."
>>
>
>     Name-calling.  Did Sokal engage in similar tactics in  _Lingua Franca_?
>Or is this an example of the requisite expertise of the well-read and
>fully-educated?

Careful.  Quoting out of context (as Aronowitz was) often introduces
distortion, stereotyping, oversimplication, etc.  I don't think we learn
much from such brief quotations masquerading as self-evident facts ("the
truth").

tq



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