Sokal and Bricmont: Back to the Frying Pan

Abstract

If you can distinguish truth from knowledge, you should be able to
distinguish the radical disavowal of truth [which usually takes the
form of relativism, or sometimes nihilism] from the radical
disavowal of knowledge [scepticism]. The former doctrine is false,
but uninterestingly so. The latter doctrine is true. By persistently
presenting them as a single doctrine, would-be spokesmen for
rationalism are driven to defend the indefensible, and unwittingly to
offer the best possible incitement to irrationalism.