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Rorty's central thesis is that philosophy has unduly relied on a Representational Theory Of Perception and a Correspondence Theory Of Truth , hoping our experience or language might mirror the way reality actually is. In this he continues a certain controversial Anglophone tradition, continuing the work of philosophers like Quine , Sellars , and Davidson . Rorty opts out of the traditional Objective / Subjective dialogue in favor of a communal version of Truth . For him, "true" is simply an honorific knowers bestow on claims, asserting them as what "we" want to say about a particular matter. Rorty spends much of the book explaining how philosophical paradigm shifts and their associated philosophical "problems" can be considered the result of the new metaphors, vocabularies, and mistaken linguistic associations which are necessarily a part of those new paradigms. |
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