[MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

[Matt Kundert]

Hey, look what I found on the New Source for Gospel Truth, Wikipedia:

"Philosopher Richard Rorty has a somewhat paradoxical
role in the debate over relativism: he is criticized for his
relativistic views by many naïve commentators, but has always denied
that relativism applies to much anybody, being nothing more than a
Platonic scarecrow. Rorty claims, rather, that he is a pragmatist, and that to construe pragmatism as relativism is to beg the question."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativism#Richard_Rorty

Must be true, since I read it there.

> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:57:39 -0400
> From: peterson.steve at gmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth
> 
> Hi DMB,
> 
> > Steve said to dmb:
> > ... Can you please, please, please define relativism with respect to truth, so I can know what you mean when you say (pace Ant) that Pirsig can't rightly be called a relativist with respect to truth?
> >
> >
> > dmb says:
> >
> > As for Rorty's part, it's like the Wiki article said: "Thus his position, in the view of many commentators, adds up to relativism." As you so often do, Steve, you're asking for an answer that I already supplied. You're asking in response to the post in which I supplied it. Are you playing some kind of game?
> 
> DMB:
> > Again, the Wikipedia article on RELATIVISM has a section on RORTY:
> ...
> >
> > Let me repeat the salient point. "He also argues ...that justification is RELATIVE; justification is justification to an audience, for Rorty. Thus his position, in the view of MANY COMMENTATORS,  adds up to RELATIVISM."
> 
> > dmb says:
> > Again, the Wiki article explains why Rorty is seen as a relativist. "Thus his position,.. adds up to relativism." You deleted the Wiki quote and now you're accusing me of refusing to define it? Kinda slap-stick sloppy, don't you think?
> 
> DMB:
> AND you claim that you have no idea what it could mean, despite that
> fact that you JUST READ a description of Rorty's relativism in the
> Wiki quote I supplied? This conversation is looking like a bad comedy
> sketch, a comedy or errors. "his position, in the view of many
> commentators, adds up to relativism."

 		 	   		  
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