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Sokal meaning

A city in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

Using Sokal

  • The main meaning on this page is: A city in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
  • In the example corpus, sokal often appears in combinations such as: sokal media, sokal and, alan sokal.

Context around Sokal

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 4 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

alan 2× overshadowed 1× currently 1× successful 1× suspected 1× felt 1×

Often after:

media 2× wrote 2× hoax 1× responded 1× affair 1×

Sentence patterns with Sokal

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

sokal and bricmont 2× bricmont and sokal responded to 1× currently sokal media group 1× had suspected sokal s piece 1× having overshadowed sokal s mathematical 1× he called sokal s action 1× physicist alan sokal wrote a 1× physicists alan sokal and jean 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

sokal and bricmont 2× currently sokal media 1× he called sokal 1× hilgartner argued that 1× in 1996 physicist 1× in social studies 1×

Common sentence endings:

about scientific objectivity 1× across the country 1× and graphic designers 1× et subjectivité 1953 1× misused scientific terminology 1× of quantum gravity 1×

Words around Sokal

Just before it in the word index:

sokak 2 soka 6 sok 12 soju 9 sojourns 5 sojourning 2

Just after it in the word index:

sokapu 2 sokcho 2 soke 5 soken 3 sokha 13 sokhan 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaa 21 abductees 21 abdulahi 21 abetment 21 abhors 21 ablution 21

Corpus analysis for Sokal

  • In this selection, "sokal" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, alan, overshadowed, currently, media, wrote and hoax stand out and add context to how "sokal" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include sokal and bricmont and bricmont and sokal responded to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "sokal" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with sokal

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Currently, Sokal Media Group manages 534 clients across the country. (10 words)

The Sokal Affair scandal extended from academia to the public press. (11 words)

Social Text's response revealed none of its editors had suspected Sokal's piece was a parody. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Sokal and Bricmont In their book Fashionable Nonsense (published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures) the physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont criticized falsifiability on the grounds that it does not accurately describe the way science really works. (38 words)

Hilgartner argued that the intellectual impact of the successful Sokal hoax cannot be attributed to its quality as a "demonstration" but rather to journalistic hyperbole and the anti-intellectual biases of some American journalists. (34 words)

In Social Studies of Science, Bricmont and Sokal responded to Stolzenberg, citation denouncing his "tendentious misrepresentations" of their work and criticizing Stolzenberg's commentary about the " strong programme " of the sociology of science. (33 words)

Example sentences (13)

He called Sokal's action sad (triste) for having overshadowed Sokal's mathematical work and ruining the chance to carefully sort out controversies about scientific objectivity.

Sokal and Bricmont In their book Fashionable Nonsense (published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures) the physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont criticized falsifiability on the grounds that it does not accurately describe the way science really works.

Currently, Sokal Media Group manages 534 clients across the country.

Sokal Media Group employees over 100 staff members from Account Executives and Account Coordinators, to Media Buyers, Digital Strategists, Website Developers, and Graphic Designers.

Hilgartner argued that the intellectual impact of the successful Sokal hoax cannot be attributed to its quality as a "demonstration" but rather to journalistic hyperbole and the anti-intellectual biases of some American journalists.

In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity".

In Social Studies of Science, Bricmont and Sokal responded to Stolzenberg, citation denouncing his "tendentious misrepresentations" of their work and criticizing Stolzenberg's commentary about the " strong programme " of the sociology of science.

Social Text's response revealed none of its editors had suspected Sokal's piece was a parody.

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Sokal and Bricmont state that they only deal with the "abuse" of mathematical and scientific concepts and explicitly suspend judgment about Deleuze's wider contributions. citation Bibliography ;Single-authored * Empirisme et subjectivité (1953).

Sokal wrote that the concept of "an external world whose properties are independent of any individual human being" was "dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook".

The book featured analysis of extracts from established intellectuals ' writings that Sokal and Bricmont claimed misused scientific terminology.

The editors said they considered it poorly written but published it because they felt Sokal was an academic seeking their intellectual affirmation.

The Sokal Affair scandal extended from academia to the public press.

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Common combinations with sokal

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "sokal" in a sentence?
An example: "He called Sokal's action sad (triste) for having overshadowed Sokal's mathematical work and ruining the chance to carefully sort out controversies about scientific objectivity." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "sokal" from authentic English texts.
What does "sokal" mean?
Sokal means: A city in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
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