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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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teleological

The controversy between those who see both our species and our society as a lucky accident, and those who find an immanent teleology in both, is too radical to permit of being judged from some neutral standpoint.

—p.xxxii Introduction (xvi) by Richard M. Rorty
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immanence

The controversy between those who see both our species and our society as a lucky accident, and those who find an immanent teleology in both, is too radical to permit of being judged from some neutral standpoint.

—p.xxxii Introduction (xvi) by Richard M. Rorty
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backup from supernatural forces

Critics of moral relativism think that unless there is something absolute, something which shares God's implacable refusal to yield to human weakness, we have no reason to go on resisting evil. If evil is merely a lesser good, if all moral choice is a compromise between conflicting goods, then, the…

—p.xxix Introduction (xvi) by Richard M. Rorty
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belief as a tool

On this view, when we utter such sentences as 'I am hungry' we are not making external what was previously internal, but are simply helping those around to us to predict our future actions. [...]

The right question to ask is, 'For what purposes would it be useful to hold that belief?' This is li…

—p.xxiv Introduction (xvi) by Richard M. Rorty