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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

12625	Pragmatism is the worst idea ever [Fodor]
	Full Idea: Pragmatism is perhaps the worst idea that philosophy ever had.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (LOT 2 [2008], Ch.1)
	A reaction: Not an argument, but an interesting sign of the times. Most major modern American philosophers, such as Quine, seem to fit some loose label of 'pragmatist'. I always smell a feeble relativism, and a refusal to face the interesting questions.