Richard Rorty
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
—Richard Rorty, New York Times Magazine, 1990
Posted on September 11, 2002 at 8:31 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
—Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Posted on April 24, 2003 at 4:11 PM
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