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Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism by tuyjrtkfeldc on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:06PM (#22828152)
Lol Sokal is a moron who doesn't actually know what postmodernism is. Are you someone who believes that his work is actually legitimate research?
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Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism by illiilliiililil on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:29PM (#22829010)
I mean, did the post-modernists who read his paper know what post-modernism was?
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Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism by danharaj on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:23PM (#22829707)
Why did Nature publish a proof that is widely considered to be fatally flawed, i.e. not a proof? https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11709

How did the Bogdanoff affair happen?

The fact that bullshit is hard to separate from "the truth" is a very good starting point for postmodern investigation.

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