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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:36:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Langston <dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu>
Subject: PLC: RE: National Socialism and Truth




On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Howard Hastings wrote:

> It should be clear enough from the passage that he is referring to
> beliefs held to be unrevisable in the name of truth-with-a-capital-T. 

Yes, and the development in debates about postmodernism and truth which
always disconcerts me is the penchant for these discussions to equivocate
repeatedly on "truth" as a term for evaluating our representations and
"truth" as the Ultimate-Object-of-Knowledge. 

...and if someone is looking for texts which raise doubts about our
representations as apodictic knowlege, Richard Rorty devotes a section
called "truth without mirrors" to a survey of Putnam, Davidson, Kripke,
et. al. which might serve up a few touchstones for further discussion
(_Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature_ 295-313).

David Langston



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