Just learned about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_aff, a hoax on a po-mo journal. Who says there’s no humor in philosophy?
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That paper was brilliant. And the journal fell for it.
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If your theory is equally good at explaining anything, it explains nothing…
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That’s the side of science most people don’t get. What a theory doesn’t explain is just as important as what it does.
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