Sorarischulariobroushiporitarification

The process of a ship's internal temperature increasing by 1-5°Celsius, before decreasing by exactly 7° Celsius in a short span of time, usually 5-10 minutes.

Man, Our ship is experiencing Sorarischulariobroushiporitarification! That's new, better take a note of this.

by Saulpurpleguy February 12, 2025

Solaris

1. A Polish science fiction novel published in 1961 that was later adapted into two feature films, one released during the 1970s, the other during the 2000s. It tells the story of a man named Kris exploring a mysterious space station only to be deceived and tempted by visions of past memories.

2. The words "Solar" and "Is" typed together without the space, likely due to a typo.

"Solaris my favorite type of power source"

"Are you talking about Tarkovsky's 1973 magnum opus Solaris?"

"No, sorry. I meant Solar is. Typo."

"Ah, that makes sense."

by ObeisantBread84 January 27, 2026

Sokalism

A cognitive bias, meta-bias, and logical fallacy named after the Sokal Affair, where one dismisses an entire field or area of knowledge as wrong based on the existence of hoaxes, bad scholarship, or fraudulent papers within that field. Sokalism is a form of academic Bulverism: instead of engaging with the actual arguments and evidence of a discipline, you point to a hoax or scandal and declare the entire field invalid. "Postmodernism is worthless because Sokal hoaxed them." "Gender studies is pseudoscience because of hoax papers." The fallacy ignores that every field contains bad work, that hoaxes reveal weaknesses in peer review but not the worthlessness of entire disciplines, and that dismissing a field based on isolated incidents is itself unscientific. Sokalism is the favorite fallacy of culture warriors who want to dismiss entire areas of inquiry without doing the work of understanding them.

Example: "He'd never read a word of postmodern philosophy, but he'd heard about the Sokal hoax. 'Postmodernism is all nonsense,' he declared, committing Sokalism. The existence of one hoax paper proved nothing about an entire tradition of thought. But he didn't need evidence; he had a story. Sokalism had done its work: dismissing a field without engaging it."

by Abzugal March 8, 2026

Solaris Corporation

Welcome to the Solaris Corporation page! We are an indie development group that specializes in the creation and management of primarily reactor core (and other means of sci-fi)-styled experiences for the enjoyment of exploring players and sci-fi enthusiasts alike. We hope you enjoy your time here!

(hello community manager of sds)

John: Have you heard of Solaris Corporation?
Alan: The corporation or the corporation?

by Makap12322 October 28, 2025

Bulverism-Sokalism

The unified cognitive bias and meta-bias that combines bulverism and sokalism into a single dismissive framework, particularly used against fields labeled as "postmodernism" or "relativism." Bulverism-Sokalism assumes that an entire field is wrong because it's "postmodern" or "relativist," and that anyone who draws on that field does so because of intellectual corruption rather than genuine insight. The bias allows its holders to dismiss vast areas of scholarship without engagement, to explain away opposing views without addressing them, and to maintain their own worldview as obviously correct while everyone else is simply deluded. Bulverism-Sokalism is the epistemology of the intellectual bubble, where everything outside is fraud and everyone inside is duped.

Example: "He dismissed all criticism as 'postmodern relativism.' When she pointed to specific arguments, he didn't engage—he just labeled them postmodern and moved on. Bulverism-Sokalism had made him immune to challenge: any opposing view was both explained away (you've been corrupted) and dismissed (your field is invalid). He never had to think, only to label."

by Abzugal March 8, 2026