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- From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
- Subject: Re: John Searle
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.010840.29496@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
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- References: <1992Dec18.000838.26936@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Dec21.003650.11227@cs.su.oz.au> <1992Dec21.171807.2296@psych.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:08:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.171807.2296@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
- >You've messed up the attributions here. It's Antoni who's expressed what
- >I called "crude pragmatism", and if you agree with it, then I suggest you
- >read up on the fall of pragmatic theories of truth. The _Encyclopedia of
- >Philosophy_ would probably be a reasonable place to begin, though it's a
- >bit dated (1967).
-
- Ooops! Sorry about the attribution. I have't read the Encyclopaedia of
- Philosophy, but I have read a reasonable amount of epistemology.
- I wouldn't really describe myself as a "naive" pragmatist (nor would
- Antoni I suspect), but one conclusion I did come to is that the theories
- of truth that don't contain at least some concessions to the pragmatist
- view are pretty silly.
-
- Danny.
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