Mr. Wynand Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 How does a pragmatist view reality and the scope of knowledge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokarrin Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Tara Smith explains it quite well in this lecture. The idea is that a lack of certainty about causation requires only short-term goals. The lack of certainty stems from a belief that unexpected events prove conclusively that no predictions about the future can be valid, since the unexpected event was by definition a failure to predict the future. They will generally concede that predicting the action of gravity on a dropped object in the immediate future is a safe bet, but they would still see it as a bet, rather than the operation of a known principle of physics. That's my best understanding so far of pragmatism, and I may well have gotten some of it wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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