[MD] Demanding Evidence From Theists

Ian Glendinning ian.glendinning at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 23:27:54 PST 2010


Steve, Matt, DMB,

Matt said
Steve, excellent piece.  However, you're starting to get
long-winded, like my reputation, so I suggest cutting it
out.  Seriously--there can be only one.

;-) Being one with a 10 minute e-mail attention span myself I will be brief ...

DMB said
>
> That only points out one more important difference between Rorty and the classical pragmatist. Rorty thinks we pragmatists shouldn't have a theory of truth but as James, Pirsig, Dewey and I see it, pragmatism IS a theory of truth.
>
That's the way I see it too, but unlike DMB I don't see the difference
as so significant. Just talking to different audiences, with different
purposes for the word truth to start with.

Regards
Ian



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