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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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Rorty on truth

In view of what Rortv sees as the incommensurability of different vocabularies, he is forced to view truth and knowledge as constructs of whatever vocabulary is seeking them (almost always collective rather than individual). A corollary of this view, however, is that each vocabulary phrases its own…

—p.84 The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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trenchant

Norris points out that Rorty is less trenchant than Baudrillard

footnote 43. re: Rorty's opposition to the idea of truth

—p.83 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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misguided tendency to seek extrinsic meaning

[...] The Vlad scenario also highlights what Rorty would regard as the misguided tendency to seek extrinsic (in this case divine) meaning in things that manifestly lack intentional significance [...]

—p.82 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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sequor ad absurdum

unwilling to allow the sequor ad absurdum approach espoused b Lenore Sr.

on LaVache in Broom

—p.79 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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antinomy

An antinomy is a problem of language similar to a paradox

on their use in Broom

—p.77 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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