Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:43:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott McLemee <mclemee-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-TH: DIALECTICS OF NATURE & SCIENTIFC THEORY -- RETORT


On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> At various times over the past two years I have tried
> to clarify the problems in the attribution of contradictions to
> natural processes, and have tried to demonstrate that objective
> contradictions in natural processes can only be spoken of when all
> contradictions have been as far as possible removed from thought
> and we are left with a situation in which reality can only be
> apprehended by contradictory yet complementary categories, and
> then we can call reality itself contradictory because the
> categories used to describe it and which accurately reflect it are
> contradictory.
> 

Wait, this is a joke, right?  Like the Sokal hoax, right?  It's hilarious 
in any case, but I hope intentionally so.  Otherwise it's just 
gobbledygook, a philosophical word-salad.


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