--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> Gee, Justin, I believe poor Mikhail Simkin got his
> education in an
> epistemological Gulag in the Soviet Union and u got
> yours in the security of
> the homeland of the free. He's got a university job
> and u lost yours. What
> does that tell us ?
>
> Charles
>
That everything each side said about the other side was true, and everything each side said about itself was false. ;->
jks
>
>
> And what kind of Gulag is that? One where the secret
> police pick you up for doubting the existence of the
> external world, take you into a cellar where you
> face
> hungry graduate student TAs who studied with Robert
> Brandom, Richard Boyd (actually a commie!), William
> Alston, and other realists, and are subjected to
> ruthless dissection of your premises?
>
> This is like something out of Monty Python, Mikhail.
> "Ever was was afraid of Doug. He used . . . .
> sarcasm.
> Synecdoche. Irony."
>
> jks
>
> "Michael Simkin" writes replying to
> > --- Gregory Geboski , who wrote:
> > > What strikes me more is that this Simkin fellow
> > > apparently assumes (and assumes that his readers
> > > will assume) that finding parallels with Lenin's
> > > thought is prima facie evidence for dismissing
> Sokal
> > > and Bricemont.
> >
> > Not really a prima face evidence - just a warning
> that they can lead
> > us to Epistemological GULAG.
>
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