Though to be fair, postmodernism involves ambiguity. The largest flaw with the Bayesian crowd as I've encountered them is that they're horrible about ambiguity, and largely like Bayesian inference because it lets them replace ambiguity and spots where they have to say "Actually, this is very complicated and there's not a clear answer" with numbers.
You should really tackle some Derrida for yourself though. Or go for someone that the Sokal crowd really hates. Sokal, after all, spared Derrida the worst of his wrath. Try Irigaray or Lacan or someone that really gets the Sokalites frothing, usually because they don't understand how "metaphors" work.
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Date: 2011-07-31 06:04 pm (UTC)You should really tackle some Derrida for yourself though. Or go for someone that the Sokal crowd really hates. Sokal, after all, spared Derrida the worst of his wrath. Try Irigaray or Lacan or someone that really gets the Sokalites frothing, usually because they don't understand how "metaphors" work.
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