RE: MD Begging the Question, Moral Intuitions, and Answering the Nazi, Part III

From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Oct 19 2003 - 02:40:51 BST

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    Matt said:
    The pragmatist makes a distinction between trying to get at the way the
    world _really_ is through language or other means and simply trying to cope
    with the world, trying to survive and perhaps some other private things. If
    you don't make a distinction, if you think everybody has a metaphysics, if
    you think that everybody makes assumptions about the way the world _really_
    is whether they like it or not, then you can't engage with the pragmatist in
    an argument because the two of you don't have a crucial assumption in
    common.

    dmb summarizes pragmatism's main (negative) point:
    People can't really talk to each other because they sincerely believe their
    beliefs. And if you don't believe that, then I just can't talk to you.

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