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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Is "Social Text" showing good faith? (was: Sokal's Hoax)
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In article <4opogt$5ec@rebecca.albany.edu>
labonnes@csc.albany.edu (S. LaBonne) writes:

> Whoa there. You may not use those _words_, but if you "use astronomy
> to refute astrology_ in this way you _are_ smuggling in arguments
> other than "I believe in astronomy" and "my tribe believes in
> astronomy".  Care to analyze further what those additional reasons
> might be?

No, I don't.  They seem too damn obvious.  Astronomy tells a convincing
story about what planets are, through which astrology can be seen as a
failure at the same sort of task.


David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
