From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir@acm.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] very OT - Machine translation
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:00:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205150100.g4F10jE04916@bach.leonora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 2002 22:14:19 +1200." <20020514102624.YJY29867.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@[210.55.36.160]>
Isn't this the long lost conclusion to Alan Sokal's "Transgressing the
Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
that was inadvertently omitted when published in "Social Text"?
--- Vladimir
See http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014
"AS" == Andrew Simmons <andrew@mbmnz.co.nz> writes:
AS> What remains therefore of Quine? The merit to have dissolved with
AS> reasonings of an extraordinary thinness many philosophical
AS> distinctions of "principle" in simple pragmatic issues of "degree"
AS> (merit that are been worth it a verbo to its name in the
AS> divertentissimo and irriverente Philosophical Lexicon di Daniel
AS> Dennett: " to quineare: to deny decidedly the existence or the
AS> importance of something of real or meaningful"). Its radical
AS> naturalismo, that it sees the task of the philosophy in continuity
AS> with the scopes of science, that denies whichever possibility of
AS> "cosmic exile" from which watching the world to outside of the
AS> theory that we have constructed in order to observe it. The
AS> ability "to dissolve in ways to speak the mobilio about our
AS> world", like a Prospero of the philosophy, declaring that "Being
AS> is being the value of one variable" to the inside of the theory in
AS> which impegnamo describing the world to us, and with defending one
AS> realistic position. Its style of writing of rare elegance, the
AS> immense one corpus of examples of enunciates to you
AS> philosophically problematic of which the philosophy reviews are
AS> still sature. Its pragmatism and its refinement in
AS> "ding-dramatize" the philosophical dichotomies that they made it
AS> to conclude, in answer to the friend and master Rudolf Carnap:
AS> "the culture of our fathers is weaving of enunciates to you. In
AS> our hands dumb it evolve and [... ] E' one grey, black culture of
AS> facts and white woman of conventions. But I have not found some
AS> reason substantial in order to conclude that there are in it spins
AS> of all the black ones and others of the all white men ".
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2002-05-14 10:14 [9fans] " Andrew Simmons
2002-05-15 1:00 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic [this message]
2002-05-15 7:28 [9fans] very " Andrew Simmons
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