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Comment author: chaosmage 09 September 2014 01:23:53PM 2 points [-]

Keep in mind the editors of Social Text did not believe Sokal's article was actually sound philosophy. Not understanding it, they preferred to give it the benefit of the doubt.

We only know that's what they said afterwards.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 September 2014 05:14:41PM 0 points [-]

By the same argument, we only know it was intended to be a hoax because Sokal said so afterward....

Comment author: chaosmage 10 September 2014 08:37:41AM *  3 points [-]

Sokal is a physicist, and a publication like this would have been a major embarassment inside his field. So he had no choice not to disclose the hoax before anyone else (who maybe didn't get the joke) would have commented.

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