Aha!
He’s a postmodernist mathematician. He PRETENDS to care about things like rigor and reasoning, but believes the axioms are arbitrary—which of course makes mathematics and logic arbitrary.
He is, in other words, lukewarm: he wants modern rigor but postmodern arbitrariness.
He’s a postmodernist mathematician. He PRETENDS to care about things like rigor and reasoning, but believes the axioms are arbitrary—which of course makes mathematics and logic arbitrary.
He is, in other words, lukewarm: he wants modern rigor but postmodern arbitrariness.
But of course if the FIRST PRINCIPLES are arbitrary, then so is everything else, including standards of rigor and deduction.
Free association isn’t INFERIOR to rigorous deduction—it simply depends on one’s axiomatic choices.
Free association isn’t INFERIOR to rigorous deduction—it simply depends on one’s axiomatic choices.
So the feminists who claim that classical physics has problems with quantifying turbulent flow because me are scared of menstruation aren’t wrong — they are just using “feminist logic.”
Which sounds like free association.
Because it is.
Which sounds like free association.
Because it is.
men*
