[MD] DMB and Rorty

[skutvik at online.no]

Steve and DMB:

DMB:
> > Huh? How can you deny that the correspondence theory of truth does not
> > answer the question of truth? That theory says our ideas are true when
> > they correspond to objective reality. That is its answer to the question
> > of truth. 

Steve:
> That's not quite what I meant. I mean that the correspondence theory
> of truth was not pursued, created, or reflected upon as an answer to
> YOUR question of truth (what is true?). It was always an answer to
> different Philosophically deep questions of truth such as...

You two are real academical caricatures and try your best to preserve 
what the MOQ was meant to abolish. It (the MOQ) says that the 4th. 
intellectual level was the introduction of TRUTH, or the 
Truth/Appearance dualism and ever since the intellect-centered 
Western (SOM) culture has been hunting for the objective (true) 
representation of reality. As alleged moqist you ought to know that 
intellect is a static level, and thus its S/O master-pattern is incomplete; 
one can pursue them individually to kingdom come without success, 
still you keep up the tradition.     

I mean not only will the search for truth frustrate us, the assertion that 
there is no truth will prove futile too, and as far as I have understood 
Rorty he is  a subjectivist - or Sophist - and I guess Matt's original 
Rorty embrace were due to him believing that the MOQ is a 
subjectivism movement, and now Steve walks into the same blind 
alley. DMB rejection of Rorty is praiseworthy, but if his rejection is from 
the MOQ position as the meta-level that sees the DQ/SQ context I 
doubt. His is the faulty notion that the MOQ is a subjective static 
intellectual pattern that reflects an objective Quality and this is just as 
un-moqish as the former.

Bodvar