From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 14:21:44 GMT
Matt:
> Platt said:
> But Pirsig--like Rorty, like you,
> like me-- could be wrong. He's admitted as much. I'd like to see Rorty do
> the same.
>
> Matt:
> Is that all you want? Well, hell, I coulda' produced that ages ago.
> Unfortunately, I can't find the best places where he says outright,
> roughly, "History may show that pragmatism is one more stepping stone on
> the way towards something else," but this is kinda' close:
Hardly an admission that pragmatism could be wrong .
> Rorty's hope and prediction is that pragmatism is our age held in thought.
But, he could be wrong.
> He's providing one more philosophical picture just as other philosophers
> like Pirsig do.
But, like Pirsig, Rorty could be wrong. I'd like to see him admit it.
> Pragmatists think that there are an infinite number of pictures.
But, they could be wrong.
> I've been pushing a pragmatist reading of Pirsig because I believe Pirsig
> shows both tendencies.
But, you could be wrong. Hell, that's not hard to admit, is it?
Platt
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