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To: Tom Smith who wrote (283108)4/6/2004 9:16:21 AM
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I get amused when humanities professors try to incorporate math or scientific terms, such as "chaos theory", into their discourse in order to legitimize their ideas. Either they sound hopelessly naive, or blissfully misinformed. A good example of this is the Sokal incident in Social Text a few years back:

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