Something I’ve been thinking about I once spent a lot of time thinking about Richard Rorty’s work on Truth and Knowledge. Rorty’s point, ultimately, was that it isn’t much use using those words in their hard sense. The conditions you would need to say that something is the Truth, or that you really Know a thing, just don’t arise. In fact, Rorty thought the whole idea of “representing reality” was a big distraction. There’s no way to know if “electricity exists” is a better representation of the world than “magic exists” – we only know that “electricity” has been a lot more useful, lately, than “magic”.
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Something I’ve been thinking about I once spent a lot of time thinking about Richard Rorty’s work on Truth and Knowledge. Rorty’s point, ultimately, was that it isn’t much use using those words in their hard sense. The conditions you would need to say that something is the Truth, or that you really Know a thing, just don’t arise. In fact, Rorty thought the whole idea of “representing reality” was a big distraction. There’s no way to know if “electricity exists” is a better representation of the world than “magic exists” – we only know that “electricity” has been a lot more useful, lately, than “magic”.