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THE PERSISTENCE OF THE MEANINGLESS: Sokal’s parody of academic jargon People often reject the truth for the sake of a more appealing (and more mysterious) semblance of truth. “After Sokal exposed his hoax, one of the editors of Social Text even speculated that Sokals parody was nothing of the sort, and that his admission represented a change of heart, or a folding of his intellectual resolve. I am reminded of the case of the American spiritualist Margaret Fox. When she confessed in 1888 that her career of seances and spirit rappings had all been a hoax, other spiritualists claimed that it was her confession that was dishonest.” physics.nyu.edu/sokal/weinberg.html
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:11:45 +0000

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