There’s a huge difference between saying that a particular literay claim can be meaningless and saying that all of those claims are meaningless.
You can take the Sokal episode as an argument that if someone who doesn’t have the expert knowledge can easily pass as an expert then those experts don’t seem to have a lot of meaningful knowledge.
Different claims in that tradition are going to have a different status.
I’m not saying that all literary claims are meaningless. I’m saying all ontological claims are meaningless. Regardless, I’m responding to a comment which implied meaningless concepts cannot be useful for communication.
There’s a huge difference between saying that a particular literay claim can be meaningless and saying that all of those claims are meaningless.
You can take the Sokal episode as an argument that if someone who doesn’t have the expert knowledge can easily pass as an expert then those experts don’t seem to have a lot of meaningful knowledge.
Different claims in that tradition are going to have a different status.
I’m not saying that all literary claims are meaningless. I’m saying all ontological claims are meaningless. Regardless, I’m responding to a comment which implied meaningless concepts cannot be useful for communication.