forum for week of 28 November: pragmatism

My reaction to "all truths are merely convenient fictions" is that I believe it is part of contemporary society's embracing of doubt. To avoid all error the safest would be to subscribe to doubt, but Rorty makes an especially strong claim in saying "all" truths. A claim like this is unfalsifiable, and has no more functionality than to have two minutes of fun pondering it. The only truths that matter are the ones that are pertinent, ones that serve a purpose. Even if they turn out to be false they have served their purpose.