From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 01:05:56 GMT
"The solution to this paradox was discovered centuries ago by Immanuel KANT
(1781) by the principle of epistemological dualism. "
The pragmatists response to Kant's "solution" is to ask what purpose the
noumenal world serves. If we can never know the world-in-itself in any
cognitive way, then what use is it?
Rather than split the world into two, pragmitists suggest that we think of
language as a tool, rather than as a medium of representation. If language
represents a reality "out there," then skepticism will always be an open
question. We will always wonder if we are correctly corresponding to
reality. If, on the other hand, we conceive of language as a tool to help
us cope with reality, the split between the noumenal and phenomenal world
never occurs.
Matt
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