@rortyquotes.bsky.socialAny greater plausibility / intelligibility of metaphors of transparency over metaphors of impression is entirely a function of the rhetoric to which one has previously been exposed.
PasAA p.221
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![21. Another way of putting this point is to say that intelligibility is cheap: you can get it just by training people to talk in a certain way. That a view is intuitive, or a phrase intelligible, shows very little about the utility of either. By way of contrast, consider McDowell’s claim that “the sheer intelligibility of the idea [of openness to facts] is enough” for his purposes (of finding a middle way between bald naturalism and the renunciation of empiricism) (McDowell, Mind and World, 113). He thinks that the idea of our being open to facts has an advantage in “intelligibility” over that of “the fact itself impressing itself on a perceiver.” But any greater plausibility of metaphors of transparency over metaphors of impression is entirely a function of the rhetoric to which one has previously been exposed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:zvfnqdge3swhntuzcjx3gndx/bafkreihsfqirnry57ppg2yheaqziew2exgwxrjxxzd2c7bxbehlzmd5ymm@jpeg)
@rortyquotes.bsky.socialIntelligibility is cheap: you can get it just by training people to talk in a certain way. That a view is intuitive, or a phrase intelligible, shows very little about the utility of either.
PasAA p.221
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![21. Another way of putting this point is to say that intelligibility is cheap: you can get it just by training people to talk in a certain way. That a view is intuitive, or a phrase intelligible, shows very little about the utility of either. By way of contrast, consider McDowell’s claim that “the sheer intelligibility of the idea [of openness to facts] is enough” for his purposes (of finding a middle way between bald naturalism and the renunciation of empiricism) (McDowell, Mind and World, 113). He thinks that the idea of our being open to facts has an advantage in “intelligibility” over that of “the fact itself impressing itself on a perceiver.” But any greater plausibility of metaphors of transparency over metaphors of impression is entirely a function of the rhetoric to which one has previously been exposed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:zvfnqdge3swhntuzcjx3gndx/bafkreifrebxgqh5btv7vsr7flegcbikr3dym4kza7epltwaqol2v2uwtmm@jpeg)
@rortyquotes.bsky.socialPhilosophers’ problems are not posed by dichotomies between realms of being, but by cultural imperialists, people with monotheistic delusions of grandeur, such as Quine and Fichte.
PasAA p.184
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@rortyquotes.bsky.socialPhilosophers’ problems are about how to prevent the words used by some of these problem-solvers from getting in the way of other words used by other problem-solvers.
PasAA p.184
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@rortyquotes.bsky.socialDemocritus, Newton, and Dalton solved some problems with particles and laws. Darwin, Gibbon, and Hegel solved others with narratives. Carpenters solve others with hammers and nails, and soldiers still others with guns.
PasAA p.184
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@rortyquotes.bsky.socialQuine thinks particle physics gives us one true paradigm of intelligibility. McDowell thinks we have two. I think we’d do better to rid ourselves of the notion of “intelligibility” altogether. We should substitute the notion of techniques of problem-solving.
PasAA p.184
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@cla-udl.bsky.social📚 New publication! X. Martin-Rubió, L. Lacasa-Cervelló & I. Diert-Boté (@irati_db) explore future #EFL teachers’ identities. ➡️ Pre-service EFL teachers’ #ideologies and #self_concepts: Juggling between #intelligibility and #nativeness discourses
🔗https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/650251
