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>I don't understand the physics, but wasn't Newtonian physics transcended
>long before post-structuralism (by Einstein, a socialist, for one)?
Sort of. Newtonian mechanics is a limit case of special relativity if
spacetime is flat and velocities are well below the speed of light.
Einstein's reasoning was informed more by Machian proto-positivism
(empiriocriticsim to you) than by anything that looks like dialectics.
>I'm not
>convinced by Irigarary that the _particular_ obstacle to better physics was
>masculinity, but in any case, I don't see how the _general_ point about the
>social construction of science and the rejection of pretensions to
>objectivity is a (new) achievement.
Well, maybe the development of an old insight in a new way is worth doing. I
don't say that Irigiray has done it. I rather doubt it.
jks
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