Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:32:16 -0500 (EST) From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-TH: DIALECTICS OF NATURE & SCIENTIFC THEORY -- RETORT > 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. Please explain the hilarity, I don't get it. I thought he was making a fairly trite point that when objective natural processes seem to be contradictory in light of our theories, it probably means our theories need improvement. Isn't this how science operates? I've never heard of a scientist who'd rest easy with a conviction that one accepted natural law operates in contradiction to another accepted natural law. But maybe Ralph was making some other point, untrite and gradly hilarious. -m --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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