I think I'm out of my depth at this point actually, and maybe shouldn't have opined as readily as I did on the pragmatists. I did a little recap of where I'd encountered the pragmatists before and realised I only read Royce, who was a friend and interlocutor of James. But I don't think he could be called a member of the pragmatist school, so I shouldn't take the impressions I got from him to be representative!
The impression I had of pragmatism was that it made claims about absolute truth or reality. That's where I felt things were taken a little too far. But the impression I have may be a caricature or misunderstanding on my part.
Deutsch has a fair bit to say about instrumentalism in Beginning of Infinity which I will leave to the interested reader to discover.
Oh okay. I'm not an expert either but I think many might even consider them anti-realists but I'm not sure... I have a friend who is literally an expert, so I should probably ask and figure that out :)
> Deutsch has a fair bit to say about instrumentalism in Beginning of Infinity which I will leave to the interested reader to discover.
The impression I had of pragmatism was that it made claims about absolute truth or reality. That's where I felt things were taken a little too far. But the impression I have may be a caricature or misunderstanding on my part.
Deutsch has a fair bit to say about instrumentalism in Beginning of Infinity which I will leave to the interested reader to discover.