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To: sirchtruth

>>Do ya think he would verify his philosophy as absolutely true?

No, he would not claim it to be true. Fish is a sort of Nietzscheanized pragmatist - he would claim an particular belief to be useful before he would claim it to be true.


44 posted on 07/16/2007 6:20:48 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

ah, an adherent of John Stuart Mills ?


78 posted on 07/16/2007 8:33:36 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: oblomov
No, he would not claim it to be true. Fish is a sort of Nietzscheanized pragmatist - he would claim an particular belief to be useful before he would claim it to be true.

So he's a moron?

153 posted on 07/16/2007 5:20:07 PM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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