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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
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Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
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To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations. The suggestion that truth is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.
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Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.
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At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Richard Rorty
Born:
October 4, 1931
Died:
June 8, 2007
(aged 75)
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