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A superb introduction to one of today's leading and most provocative thinkers. Since Plato most philosophy has aimed at true knowledge, penetrating beneath appearances to an underlying reality. Against this tradition, Richard Rorty convincingly argues, pragmatism offers a new philosophy of... read more

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The epithet 'relativist' is applied to philosophers who agree with Nietzsche that ' "Truth" is the will to be master of the multiplicity of sensations'.

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  1. Richard Rorty (Author)
 

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