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Re: Rorty on socialism (fwd)

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>From: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Rorty on socialism (fwd)
>Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2000, 4:54 am
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>Rorty's analysis of the methodological foundations of social sciences--
>the philosphical question of how we, as scientists, make the world
>knowable and comprehensible--potentially lies in what Rorty calls
>"idealizations".

But we do not have to *make* the world knowable
and comprehensible. Over time the world
*is* knowable and comprehensible. If it doesn't make
sense now it will make sense later.

Harry Veeder
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