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” (15[1])as the first of his four methods of fixing our beliefs. The author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, (*) Richard Rorty, was a leading figure of this school’s (10[1])“neo” branch. The example of a (-5[1])squirrel going around a tree appears in a book 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 (10[1])included C. S. Peirce (“purse”) and William James? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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