Saturday, June 15, 2013

Spoof arguments against the Axiom of Choice

As a first year graduate student, I wrote this pseudonymous spoof, inspired by the Sokal affair. It's rather immature in places, but enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed the paper. I may or may not have tried to play it off as a serious argument against the axiom of choice at a certain forum on WLC's website. It would have a better chance of being taken seriously if you would not have included "hoax" in the url. haha.

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  2. Enjoyable, but it clearly fails the ideological Turing test. Mostly it's too analytic in style, which makes your Marxist hints/winks stand out unnaturally. Not sure if this was already obvious.

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  3. There are analytic philosophers who are Marxists. But they don't write in this silly way. :-)

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  4. Needs updating to make it relevant for today. James-Pravda should be revised to James-NBC.

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