Friday 7 May 2010

isn't it... don't you think?

The ironist spends her time worrying about the possibility that she has been initiated into the wrong tribe, taught to play the wrong language game. She worries that the process of socialisation which turned her into a human being by giving her a language may have given her the wrong language, and so turned her into the wrong kind of human being. But she cannot give a criterion of wrongness.

--Richard Rorty, 'Contingency, Irony and Solidarity'

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