[MD] Sam Harris attacks Pragmatism

[Steven Peterson]

Hi DMB,



> It would be nice if you unpacked your paragraph about the hypothetical mystic. I think there is something interesting in there but I don't quite follow the argument. I mean, the idea of using mysticism to save the correspondence theory is a pretty jarring idea. Pirisg says does the opposite of that and the mystical experience itself would be conceived as non-conceptual so that we could call it unmediated experience but not unmediated knowledge. This would be related to Quality or pure experience more than the pragmatic theory of truth, however, and it's not the sort of thing that can be used as evidence for propositional sentences. Anyway, here's the unpackworthy paragraph:

Steve:
I can't think of how else to say it. The argument is from around page
175 in The End of Faith.