Lexicon of Arguments

 

II (b) 40
RortyVsHabermas: we linguistic historicists believe that dependency relations can only be uncovered when someone proposes concrete alternatives. There is no "humanity" that would have to be guided from an era of "distorted communication" (relative term) to a new era. - We reject the notion that people have a "Interior" that resists "external conditioning".
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II (e) 101 ff
Description/Rorty: the nature described will always have some sort of order.
Thing itself/Rorty: just nature which is not described by any human language.
II (e) 106f
Freud/Rorty: has no interest in a distinction between reality and appearance! It’s about new description.
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IV 49
World: "Non-sentences". - Rorty characterizes Davidson's thesis of the non-existence of a relationship of "truthmakers" ((s) quotation marks by Rorty) to the world as the denial of a relationship between non-sentences and sentences.
((s) Everything that is not a sentence - because sentences are about the world. Otherwise circular).
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VI 169
Reality/statements/Wittgenstein/Rorty: we are unable to move back and forth between our statements about electrons and the electrons themselves - not even between our attributions of beliefs and the beliefs themselves - E.g. (Wittgenstein) that would be like trying to confirm what s in the newspaper by comparing what is in another copy of the same newspaper.
VI 170
Success/explanation/reality/RortyVsDennett: Success as an explanation helps us to waive "reality" - the success depends on the usefulness. >Explanation/Dennett, >Benefit, >Success.