Reccomended (Light) Reading
I am way to tired to write anything right now, although I have been considering a post on art and politics that’d be essentially a reiteration of things I’ve said elsewhere.
For now, because unless you, dear reader, are Brandon you probably don’t know anything about it, I recommend that you read the SEP article on Charles Peirce. Do yourself and everyone else some good and learn about the most original and arguably greatest American thinker ever.
Remember: Pragmatism is a theory of meaning, not of truth. And if you don’t understand this, let alone the ways in which Peirce and James understood science, the Pragmatic notion of truth is going to sound like nonsense, as it did to Russell and Moore and whoever else. The biographical context of these guys is really important here, and if you ever take to heart anything I’ve ever told you, let it be this.