From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 00:58:45 BST
Matt said:
> And then to say that "intersubjective agreement" is "checking with you
> neighbor to know if something is true" is just an asanine misconstrual,
> a demagogic trick to put people off my path. I usually say what I mean,
> and if I had meant, "Hey, if you want to know if it is true that a tiger
> is about to eat you, you had better go check with somebody," I would
> have said it. But that's not what intersubjective agreement cashes out
> to mean.
It's a shame to see Matt resorting to name calling, a sure sign of a
weak position. According to Rorty, here's what intersubjective
agreement "cashes out" (what a strange term) to mean:
"Philosophers on my side of the argument answer that objectivity is not
a matter of correspondence to objects but a matter of getting together
with other subjects--that there is nothing to objectivity except
intersubjectivity." (From "Truth and Progress, 1998)
Here's Rorty stating that his statement is objectively true only if
enough people say it is. How many people is enough? That, of course, is
never stated.
Looks to me like Matt will have to take a poll to know what that tiger
is about to do.
Platt
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