Lexicon of Arguments

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I 250
Justification/Rorty: E.g. through sensual data.
Explanation/Rorty: causal.
>Explanation, >Sense data.
I 275
Explanation: Hardware, private - Justification: subjects, public.
III 127
Def Final vocabulary/Rorty: we use it to tell the story of our life, sometimes with hindsight, sometimes looking forwards - "Final": because there is no standpoint outside it from which it can be justified - only circular justification is possible. >Vocabulary/Rorty.
V 26ff
Justification/Rawls: "with a justification that the others cannot reasonably reject" Rorty: this is in line with the "constructivist" view of a specific historic colective justification.
VI 38
Justification/belief/behavior/truth/Davidson/Rorty: the need to justify our beliefs to ourselves produces a pattern of behavior. - We must perceive this with others in order to attribute beliefs to them. - Truth is not necessary as an additional standard for this.
VI 72f
RortyVsfact. The majority can certainly be wrong. So that might turn out later that something was not true. But was it justified?
>Truth, >Assertibility, >Facts, >States if affairs.
VI 237
Justification/Rorty: there is a human activity called "justification of beliefs" that you can explore historically and sociologically, but this activity has no goal called "truth" and therefore no goal called "knowledge". The question whether we achieve this goal, therefore, does not arise.
>Recognition, >Epistemology, >Knowledge, >Progress.

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