Round 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 included “tenacity” and “authority” as the first of his four methods of fixing our beliefs. The author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, (15[1])(*) Richard Rorty, was a leading (10[2])figure (10[1])of this school’s “neo” branch. The example (10[1])of a squirrel going around a tree appears in a book (10[1])from this school which asserts that what is true is what proves itself useful in experience. For 10 points, what American school of philosophy’s members included C. S. Peirce (“purse”) and William James? ■END■

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