A form of cognitive bias and meta-bias where you dismiss all criticism, questioning, and opposing positions by labeling them under a single, easily attackable category—typically "postmodernism" or "relativism"—inspired by the Sokal Affair. Sokal Bias is the intellectual equivalent of putting everything you disagree with in a box labeled "nonsense" and refusing to open it. It allows you to maintain your worldview without ever engaging with alternatives, to dismiss complex arguments with a single word, to strawman entire traditions of thought. Sokal Bias is particularly common in online debates, where "postmodernism" has become a catch-all insult for anything the speaker doesn't understand or doesn't like.
Example: "Every time she raised a critique, he called it 'postmodern nonsense.' Sokal Bias had reduced all complexity to a single label, all challenge to a single dismissal. She could have been making the most rigorous argument in the world; it wouldn't matter. The label did all the work."
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She has a solabhoria which prevents her from answering any 12 markers in GCSEs
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Get the Solanara mug.Sola technologica is a term Adam coined as a playful but pointed critique of an overreliance on technology alone to solve problems—evoking the theological phrase sola scriptura (by scripture alone).
Adam uses sola technologica to warn against techno-utopianism. Technology is powerful, but it must be guided by people-centered leadership, thoughtful strategy, and systems thinking—or it risks becoming hollow, or even harmful.
Adam uses sola technologica to warn against techno-utopianism. Technology is powerful, but it must be guided by people-centered leadership, thoughtful strategy, and systems thinking—or it risks becoming hollow, or even harmful.
“The doctrine of sola technologica has never contained the full truth. Of course we need technical experts; there is absolutely no debate on that. However, without other, equally critical elements—strategy, data stewardship, repeatable and scalable processes, financial stewardship, and, perhaps the most important component, soft (i.e., people) skills—the summa technologica remains woefully incomplete.”
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