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Abandoning the search for “the only truth.”
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Science developed from the late 19th century
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protestant as well as Catholic.
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An atmosphere where one truth cannot be said to be the same.
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Nietzsche, “God is dead.”
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Around the same time, Charles Perse published Pragmatism in the U.S.
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parsing
- How does the “concept” actually work?
- Hard means it won’t break if you hit it against something.”
- The meaning of the concept becomes lucid when we consider what effects are produced.
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Pragmatism was criticized as an ambiguous philosophy and fell into disuse.
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It is in the 1950s and 1960s that it lifts its head again.
- analytic philosophy W. V. O. Quine
- Truth is ‘that which can be explained well.
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In the 70s and 80s, Richard Rorty analyzed European philosophy, such as Nietzsche and Heidegger, and proposed neo-pragmatism, which is similar to American philosophy in that it rejects the sole search for truth, and both ultimately aim at the same place
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John Dewey: The search for truth requires a democratic attitude
- More than one person must be considered correct to test a hypothesis
- It is essential to be respectful of ideas that differ from our own.
- Dewey. “Dichotomies affect each other.”
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Steve Jobs: failure was a good thing in the end Connecting the Dots.
http://president.jp/articles/-/20609 #Pragmatism
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