Re: MD NAZIs and Pragmatism

From: bahna@rpi.edu
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 21:36:16 GMT

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    "but it is only an extension of the thoughts begun by many other
    philosophers over the past century [Dewey, James, Wittgenstein, Kuhn,
    etc.)"

    Should I have also included Pirsig in this list of philosophers?

    Andy

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:02:02 EST bahna@rpi.edu wrote:

    > 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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