I understand your point, I just disagree. As you point out in the your last sentence, there is an enormous and quite uncanny trench between principled and unprincipled critique. One comes from a place of understanding and heartfelt disagreement, one does not (although one is often presumed by authors). While the former is possible, I would confidently say the both Sokal&#x27;s and the commenter&#x27;s came from the later.<p>Edit to add: Sokal&#x27;s entire proposition (based in frankly an attempt to embarrass a field) exposes the lie underneath the straw man being built to support him.