I came across this passage while reading today and thought it was pretty relevant to the last class:
Richard Rorty, in turns, jettisons the classic conception of truth as either the mind or language mirroring nature. Truth is established neither by the correspondence of an assertion with the objective reality nor by the internal coherence of the assertions themselves, says Rorty. He argues that we should simply give up the search for truth and be content with interpretation. He proposes replacing classic "systematic philosophy" with "edifying philosophy" which "aims to continuing a conversation rather than discovering truth."
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