"Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. I live on the twenty-first floor."
"Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. I live on the twenty-first floor."
David Stove (Anything Goes: The Cult of Scientific Irrationalism) points out that these cultural relativists always leave themselves an out; basically they don’t really believe what they write. They believe in having air conditioning in their house that performs according to the ideal gas law, and then go to work and write that science is just a cultural artifact of the west, no better than any other culture.
Sokal Hoax: glory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
"Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. I live on the twenty-first floor."
David Stove (Anything Goes: The Cult of Scientific Irrationalism) points out that these cultural relativists always leave themselves an out; basically they don’t really believe what they write. They believe in having air conditioning in their house that performs according to the ideal gas law, and then go to work and write that science is just a cultural artifact of the west, no better than any other culture.