Word is that Richard Rorty died:< http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/christopher_hayes/2007/06/richard_rorty. html > Dennett's Philosophical Lexicon had two affectionate entries: rort, an incorrigible report, hence rorty, incorrigible. and a rortiori, adj., true for even more fashionable continental reasons. I'd not read him till recently, but got there in time to recognize a sad loss. P