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 --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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