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Single Idea 2565

[catalogued under 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning]

Full Idea

Nature has no preferred way of being represented.

Gist of Idea

Nature has no preferred way of being represented

Source

Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 6.5)

Book Reference

Rorty,Richard: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' [Blackwell 1980], p.300


A Reaction

Tree rings accidentally represent the passing of the years. If God went back and started again would she or he opt for a 'preferred way'?