Hi Matt the E:
Since many of the key words used in your posts are, as you've said,
"highly idiosyncratic," I've taken it upon myself to "self-create" some
plain English definitions.
ad hoc - temporary fix
aesthetic axis - popular entertainment
ahistoric - generic
ahistorical - universal
biconditional - depending on two things happening at once
causally - circumstantial
context - circumstances
contextualize - to describe the circumstances
contingent - influenced by
cultural context - beliefs of a group
dialectical - logical
distaste - don't like
diversity - different from you
essentialism - things everyone should know
final vocabulary - your everyday speech
historicist - story teller
historicized - story retold
incorrigibility - stubbornness
intersubjective - among a group
ironic - gentle sarcasm
ironist - enjoys being gently sarcastic
mediate - compromise
narrative - story
nominalist - only words are real
Oedipal cycle - love of parent later turned to hate
plurality - majority
poeticized - said in an unfamiliar way
poetized - to say differently
pragmatism - true if useful
pragmatist - show me it's useful
recontextualization - rewritten
recontextualize - rewrite
self-creation - invention
sensitive - emotional
solidarity - conformity
text - words, writing
vocabulary - words, word use
I hope you'll correct any definition you see as giving the wrong meaning
to a Rortyan term. I'm sure you'll agree that it will help in our
discussions if we can agree on a common vocabulary.
Platt
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