[MD] DMB and Rorty

[Steven Peterson]

Hi DMB,

DMB said:

"The correspondence theory is just one particular answer to the
question of truth and knowledge but because that particular answer has
failed, he concludes that we should abandon the questions too."


Steve:
In reading your last post in the repeated references to "the question
of truth and knowledge" I kept being reminded of the Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy--having finally obtained the "Answer to the
Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" but now
wondering what the actual question was.

For Rorty, the question is, "what is the fundamental nature of truth?"
It is this question that he would like to drop from our philosophical
talk--the sort of question that distinguishes Philosophy (the attempt
to isolate the nature of the True or the Good) from philosophy (what
Sellars called “an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible
sense of the term, hang together, in the broadest possible sense of
the term”).

I would assume that you would also like to put this question ("what is
the fundamental nature of truth?") aside, so I'm not sure what the
disagreement will be on the matter. Therefore, before I respond to
your post, it would be helpful if you explained what you see as "the
question of truth and knowledge" that you keep referring to if it is
not to ask about the fundamental nature of the True and the Good.

Best,
Steve