Saturday, April 17, 2004

Truth: Rorty on Nietzsche and William James

Finally waited to the last minute, no more time to procrastinate... gotta write the paper. Began reading some on truth in Nietzsche but I started falling asleep. The author of the book, John Wilcox, was using metaethical terms to describe Nietzsche's epistemology. Wilcox talked about cognitivism (objectivism), and noncognitivism (subjectivisim). A cognitivist believes that people can find out the facts and then they will learn what is right or wrong (or true or false). Whereas a noncognitivist does not believe that one can rationally learn what is right or wrong. So far so good, but the rest of it will have to wait until tomorrow morning, or later on this morning....

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