willow: "you can always just use your favored vocabulary and the proof will be in the demonstration"

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you can always just use your favored vocabulary and the proof will be in the demonstration

willowMar 2, 2025

to defend indirect engagement for a moment: partly it's because i think squabbling can sometimes preclude the full expression and development of one's own perspective, and partially it's a matter of some positions best being best expressed in the tone "try thinking of it this way"

richard rorty, contingency, irony, solidarity, pg. 9
This sort of philosophy does not work piece by piece, analyzing concept 11fter concept, or testing thesis after thesis. Rather, it works holistically and pragmatically. It says things like "try thinking of it this way" - or more specifically, "try to ignore the apparently futile traditional questions by substituting the following new and possibly interesting questions." It does not pretend to have a better candidate for doing the same old things which we did when we spoke in the old way. Rather, it suggests that we might want to stop doing those things and do something else. But it does not argue for this suggestion on the basis of antecedent criteria common to the old and the new language games. For just insofar as the new language really is new, there will be no such criteria. Conforming to my own precepts, I am not going to offer arguments against the vocabulary I want to replace. Instead, I am going to try to make the vocabulary I favor look attractive by showing how it may be u11ed to describe a variety of topics

August 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM

willowAug 26, 2025

converting futanari observer from a positivist to a rortian pragmatist, day 1