[MD] Rorty's Relativism

[Ian Glendinning]

DMB said "Uh oh, looks like it's apology night for Dave."

Ian says - It's OK Dave, I'm not holding my breath.
Ian

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:41 AM, david buchanan<dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> dmb said:
> ...And it's not just a problem among students. It's also a problem for grandmothers like Marsha, who thinks Pirsig is a relativist.
> Marsha replied:
> That's my label, Dave, grandmother?
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> Uh oh, looks like it's apology night for Dave.
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> I didn't mean "grandmother" as an insult. Some of my favorite people are grandmothers. One of them happens to be a different grandmother named Marsha whose son recently graduated from law school and yesterday took his first job as a lawyer. She's rightly proud. That particular Marsha is a very cool artist and she's pretty hot too. For whatever it's worth, I am old enough (47) to be a grandfather. One day when I was picking my son up at school I saw a pony-tailed guy my age picking up another student. Assuming he was the boy's father, I joked, "Geezer dads of the world unite!". He said, "Um, actually I'm his grandfather".
> I was just disputing Rorty's contention that relativism is a position that nobody holds except for "the occasional cooperative freshman". I only meant that one doesn't have to be a naive child to be a relativist. Sorry, but you're a granny with a master's degree and so I thought you were a great counter-example.
> Besides, ain't it just a fact? If you are going to be offended by labels, please be offended by the relativist label.
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