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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 3. Eristic

2556	Rational certainty may be victory in argument rather than knowledge of facts [Rorty]
	Full Idea: We can think of "rational certainty" as a matter of victory in argument rather than relation to an object known.
	From: Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 3.4)