RE: MD generalised propositional truths

From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 17:30:27 BST

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    David,

    I said:
    >> I think [Rorty's] use of the word "God"
    >> alongside "phlogiston" creates a certain reaction to the notion of
    >erasure
    >> here. "The earth is flat" seems like a good candidate for erasure to me,
    >> for example. Would you want to get that pattern perfect?

    You replied:
    >I think that these ptolemaic patterns have already been intellectually
    >perfected
    >by Galileo who was able to describe our current stimuli and place the
    >ptolemaic
    >patterns in a more cosmically correct place within our patterns (not very
    >high).

    Paul: I think Ptolemaic patterns worked on the basis that the earth was
    spherical, not flat. But anyway, Copernicus, for example, didn't "work
    around" the geocentric model, he replaced it. Many of the patterns from the
    Ptolemaic model may have survived but I can't see why you insist that they
    were all kept in the heliocentric model.

    >> Paul: yes but I see Dynamic Quality as part of what Rorty calls the
    >> environment - the intrusion of new values which produce new intellectual
    >> patterns to be weaved in.
    >>
    >
    >I don't think this is what Rorty intended.

    Paul: I don't know, probably not, but I am adding it to his thesis for my
    purposes anyway.

    Regards

    Paul

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