Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with
"Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with"
Richard Rorty
What does Richard Rorty mean by saying this?
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I haven't read any of the work of Rorty. To me, these few words mean: - there is no real or objective truth. - people are very critical of other people's ideas.
- I haven't read any of the work of Rorty.
- To me, these few words mean: - there is no real or objective truth.
- - people are very critical of other people's ideas.
- - people are often dishonest in intellectual discussions.
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I haven't read any of the work of Rorty.
To me, these few words mean:
- there is no real or objective truth.
- people are very critical of other people's ideas.
- people are often dishonest in intellectual discussions.
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~ Truth is whatever most people around you believe strongly enough to call it the truth.
This is a sort of capsule summary (though not precise) of Rorty's philosophy, "neopragmatism", whose starting point was the pragmatism of the American philosopher Charles Peirce (Truth is the
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