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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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"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 ".