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Saturday, 19 March 2022

Richard Rorty: “We don’t need to define the word ‘truth’.”

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“What is truth?” Now take Rorty’s deflation: “The word ‘truth’ is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.” “What ...
Tuesday, 15 March 2022

19th-Century Logic: Augustus De Morgan on Scientific Hypotheses

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  Hypotheses as acts of the imagination. Augustus De Morgan (1806 — 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated the well-k...
Saturday, 12 March 2022

Thomas Nagel on Bad Language and Good Reason (Part Five)

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  Thomas Nagel’s “view from outside language”. Skip the following square-bracketed introduction if you’ve already read my  ‘Thomas Nagel as ...
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