Re: MD Metaphysics and Pragmatism

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 15:19:36 GMT

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Matt:

> Platt said:
> The problem comes in that 1) the statement ["Everything is
> temporary."] contradicts itself . . .

> Matt:
> The pragmatist's argument is that "Everything is temporary" only seems like
> a contradiction when we try to fit that statement into an old vocabulary
> that contrasts between absolute and relative, subjective and objective.
> When we ditch the old vocabulary, the contradictions disappear.

Do you mean that the "old vocabulary" that pragmatists want to ditch is
logic? Are you saying pragmatism is anti-rational?

Platt

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