From: bahna@rpi.edu
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 21:02:02 GMT
DMB says,
"It seems to me that Rorty is saying that the last 25 hundred years of
Western Philosophy ought to be ejected. This strikes me as just about the
most extraordinary claim I've ever heard and so to persuade me of its truth
would take extraordinary evidence."
Yes, this does seem an extraordinary claim, but it is only an extension of
the thoughts begun by many other philosophers over the past century [Dewey,
James, Wittgenstein, Kuhn, etc.) I think his analogy of throwing away the
ladder, not because we have reached a final conclusion, but because we are
faced with new problems is a good one here.
Andy
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