Packet 3: Tossup 12

A thinker from this school of thought who discussed normal and abnormal discourses in his conversational approach to knowledge described “private” writers as ironists. A thinker from this school (15[1])included “tenacity” and “authority” (15[2])as the (15[2])first of his four methods of fixing our beliefs. The author (15[1])of Philosophy and the (15[1])Mirror of Nature, (15[1])(*) Richard Rorty, (10[1])was a (10[1])leading (10[2])figure (10[1])of this school’s (10[1])“neo” branch. (10[2]-5[1])The example (10[2])of a (-5[1])squirrel (10[1])going (-5[1])around (10[2])a tree appears in a book (10[1])from this (10[1])school which asserts (10[1])that what is true is what proves itself (10[1]-5[1])useful in experience. (-5[2])For 10 (-5[1])points, what American school of philosophy’s members (10[2])included C. S. Peirce (“purse”) and William (10[1])James? (10[1]0[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[5]0[11])

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