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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.

 

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