Re: MD When is an interpretation not an interpretation?

From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 05:33:15 GMT

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    Matt,

    > Matt:
    > Ah, I see. You think I'm making an ontological claim, as if I'm a
    metaphysical materialist. Pace Scott, pragmatists see a difference between
    metaphysical materialism (which is included under Scott's 'nominalist'
    epithet) and their own non-reductive physicalism (which is not).

    I believe Rorty calls himself a nominalist, but I can't remember where. In
    any case, the general idea that language was created as a tool for coping
    with the environment is a nominalist one, and as I recall, the first chapter
    of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is in part to dispose of the
    hypostatization of universals, as part of a general attack on the notion of
    the reality of the immaterial.

    - Scott

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