Jargone It!

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Don,
Enjoyed and agree w/ your post.  I firmly believe that any idea can be expressed 
clearly, as are yours, for example, but I find blanket attacks on jargon (or 
wrong-minded ones such as Sokal's) too often to be about something other than 
what they say they are about.  After all, all Sokal proved, IMO, is that you can fool 
some of the people some of the time.  Hardly a revelation, eh? 

 I don't routinely read the LA TIMES (poor excuse for a paper, I think)--do you 
know if they carry Big George's column? What paper did you read it in?

john m

>In the meantime, while Morton's attackers misread him as the kind of
>(post)modernist he is himself attacking, George Will predictably leaps into
>the fray, fangs bared for red, fleshy meat, of Sokal and The Controversy,
>in today's newspaper column.
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>And so it goes.
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>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
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